Physicists propose that tangled cosmic “knots” formed after the Big Bang may explain why our universe is made of matter, not ...

Since conventional explanations have failed to pony up dark matter, one physicist is looking towards the unconventional. In a series of two papers, physicist Stefano Profumo of the University of ...

Understanding why we live in a matter-dominated universe demands that scientists recreate the quark-gluon plasma that existed one millionth of a second after the Big Bang. A Large Ion Collider ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the bending of space and time. Quantum mechanics governs the world of particles ...

We may have already found evidence of an evolving, dynamic kind of dark energy from the first stars in our universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just solved a 20-year-old mystery about how ancient stars could host massive planets. In the early 2000s, the Hubble Space Telescope observed the oldest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. There's a big problem when we look at the brightest, most energetic ...