Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

The night sky deceives us. The universe should be ablaze with starlight, yet it isn’t. Discover how the finite speed of light, cosmic expansion, and invisible radiation from the Big Bang—the Cosmic ...

Researchers created a technique to reduce uncertainty in cosmic birefringence measurements, resolving a key phase ambiguity and improving future studies of fundamental physics.

Deep canyons in the Andes are the perfect location to catch the most energetic particles in the universe. Carlos ...

From 19 to 22 January, 80 particle physicists, astronomers and cosmologists gathered at CERN for the first “All that ...

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) along with other institutes have proposed a new way to address the Hubble tension by comparing ...

Scientists worldwide respond to the publication of the three-volume monograph “Quantum Model of the Universe” #Physics ...

Astronomers studying the Milky Way's oldest stars have estimated that the Universe is about 13.6 billion years old.

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...