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

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

But now, according to the renowned theoretical physicist Dr Michio Kaku, the cosmic mystery may end soon. According to the ...

Astronomers using nine years of MWA data have set the strongest limits yet on the 21-cm hydrogen signal from the universe’s ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial ...

Professor Chamkaur Ghag is driving efforts to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), the prime candidates for dark matter.

Doctor in Physics, specialist in active galaxies and supermassive black holes, she is a researcher at the Center for ...

Our Universe was 'pre-heated' in its early moments, according to a new study from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), challenging assumptions it emerged from an ultracold ...