The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

The model questions the popular inflation theory, which most experts believe was facilitated after the universe's birth. The ...

A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

As theoretical physics delves deeper into the fundamental nature of reality, we’re left to grapple with the questions it leaves us. For example, some physicists claim that our universe is merely an ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

A model that allows for this prolonged expansion would be more general (meaning it could apply to multiple possible versions of the universe), but calculations involving strongly coupled spacetimes ...

Sebastian Currier’s “Mysterium” is based on the husband-and-wife team of scientist Robbert Dijkgraaf and novelist Pia de Jong. Donald Nally leads The Crossing choir in a rehearsal of ‘’Mysterium’’ at ...