The birth of the universe has been a question that has puzzled scientists for centuries. In a groundbreaking study published ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

More heat is transferred between objects that are just a few nanometers apart than physics theory predicts. A research team ...

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

Dark energy may have switched directions sometime in the distant past — and this violent transition may explain why ...