Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

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 ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could ...

Astronomers have been mapping vast cosmic structures for decades, from galaxy clusters to immense superclusters. But now, researchers have identified what they say is officially the largest known ...

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the ...

It will be a view unlike any other — completely invisible, exceptionally quiet and utterly transformative. Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes ...

As soon as the end of February, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will launch a new telescope into orbit around the Earth called SPHEREx. Its goal is to examine nothing less than the essential ...