In a new, detailed breakdown of current theory, a team of physicists led by Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia ...

Researchers have moved one step closer to solving one of science’s greatest mysteries—why the universe is filled with matter instead of nothing. Scientists at Indiana University have made a major ...

The Big Bang is considered the beginning of the universe, the moment when all time and space came into existence. However, scientists wondered what preceded this and what the origin of the Big Bang ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using ...

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 ...

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

His latest book, Discordance, fits into the class of conventional popular cosmology, in so far that it is an account of how our present understanding of the Universe has emerged. But it is also, with ...

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of ...

According to the laws of physics, matter and antimatter behave the same way and were formed in equal quantities in the Big ...