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

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

"The ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time," Heino ...

Distant quasars may hold the key to spotting elusive gravitational waves—and revealing hidden dimensions of the universe.

A researcher simulated the Athenian temple’s lighting conditions at different times of the day, discovering that its interior ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

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

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

Experiments with hydrogen atoms could soon reveal whether particles that were long thought to be forbidden by physics ...

What is the universe's end date? We don't know exactly, but experts now say it could be sooner than previously expected.

For the last few decades, every observation seemed to be in reasonable agreement with this narrative, so physicists integrated a cosmological constant into their model of how the universe works.