From ultracold silicon detectors in Texas to massive underground experiments, scientists are deploying new tools to catch ...

Hints of impossibly bright, massive objects in the infant universe have forced astronomers to rethink how the first cosmic ...

The University of Nebraska at Kearney Planetarium is inviting the public to explore the universe with a new lineup of ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

The Standard Model of our universe doesn’t match the evidence, in part because of dark energy, a ghostly force pushing the ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

An international research project has been awarded £215,100 to explore some of the rarest and most unstable forms of matter ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

What is the fundamental nature of reality? What is the true essence of human consciousness? These questions will take center stage at the Nature of Reality Seminar, a major interdisciplinary gathering ...

A USF professor and research team are using two NASA grants and the Hubble Space Telescope to test the mathematical model of ...

A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...