For more than 300 years, Isaac Newton's simple rule about gravity has held up: the farther apart two objects are, the weaker ...

J. Colin Hill, an associate professor of physics, was awarded a New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Breakthrough Prize ...

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In the exotic world of particle physics, neutrinos may be the most mysterious members. They rarely interact with other matter ...

Observations don’t match the predictions of the standard model—and it’s not just a fluke.

An unprecedented neutrino detection in the Mediterranean has pushed the boundaries of high-energy astrophysics, raising new ...

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A ...

A spectacular cosmic event nicknamed “SN Winny” could help solve one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries: how fast the universe is expanding. This rare superluminous supernova, located 10 billion ...

Black holes that formed before the Big Bang could still exist today as ‘cosmic fossils’, potentially helping to explain the mysterious dark matter that shapes galaxies across the Universe, according ...

Cosmic viewer The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile was used by the team to observe gravitational interactions between ...

Scientists have introduced a new Big Bounce model that disputes the Big Bang, suggesting the universe may have cycled through earlier cosmic eras.