The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Structures known as "zippers" and "twisters" in the early universe may explain why dwarf galaxies tend to line up with each ...

Although all ... time. This isn't an outlandish notion. Neutrinos have mass and don't interact strongly with light. While they can't account for all the dark matter of the universe, they are a ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the ...

A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

It might seem unfathomable, but that mind-boggling max age for the universe is far lower than the previously predicted 10 1100 years (which is 1 with 1100 zeroes). While this prior hypothesis did ...

How does light manage to travel billions of light-years without ever slowing down? This is a question that seems to defy ...

One study in the journal Nature found organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe. Thus complex organic compounds are not the sole domain of life. They can be made ...