"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from." ...

This cataclysm would result from a change in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space. It would be ...

"This shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology," said the reseachers.

Is consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe, present in all matter to some degree? This idea is known as ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues ...

A bold new quantum theory of gravity may finally bridge the long-standing rift between Einstein’s general relativity and quantum field theory. This potential "Theory of Everything" could answer some o ...

Not only is it difficult to understand what goes on beyond the limits of the solar system that our planet calls home, the ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

Structures known as "zippers" and "twisters" in the early universe may explain why dwarf galaxies tend to line up with each ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their ...