This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.
The Universe might not exist forever. New observations by physicists indicate that it will one day reach its maximum size ...
Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...
On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...
Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...
If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...
Russell M. Kulsrud, 97, a pioneering theoretical physicist whose work helped define the modern fields of plasma physics and ...
Scientists really don't understand time... but they do have some theories about what it might (and might not) be.
Brown University physics Prof. Stephon Alexander spoke on how the analysis of musical elements can help astrophysicists understand patterns of the universe in his lecture “The Jazz of Physics” ...
No one knows for sure, but it is not unlikely that the universe is constructed in a completely different way than the usual theories and models of today predict. The most widely used model today ...
The expanding Universe, full of galaxies and the complex structure we observe today, arose from a smaller, hotter, denser, more uniform state. But even that initial state had its origins, with cosmic ...