The Universe still holds many mysteries, and among the most intriguing are these invisible components known as dark matter ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is ...

In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...

Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...

To answer Robertson: The Higgs field doesn’t appear to have more valleys to explore, according to our current understanding.

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...