A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

Particles faster than light could revolutionise our understanding of space, time, and the universe’s fundamental laws.

Astronomers report how a "death by a thousand blows" caused a galaxy in the early universe to stop forming stars, making it ...

SN Ares might be the most exciting one. The star exploded when the universe was about one-third of its current age.

Gravity is supposed to be the most familiar force in nature, yet at the deepest level it remains the least understood. A bold ...

The universe’s accelerating expansion has long puzzled physicists. For decades, dark energy, an unseen force thought to make ...

Dark energy may be the most mysterious substance ever proposed, but many scientists are certain it exists. Why?

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new infrared map of the Universe from its SPHEREx mission, offering fresh insight into ...

Results from KATRIN and MicroBooNE strongly disfavour a light sterile-neutrino explanation of longstanding anomalies.

The standard explanation has been dark energy, an invisible force added into the equations to make the math work. But now, an ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, are expected to outperform ...

A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...