Could a black hole have existed before the very first stars ever twinkled? New James Webb Space Telescope observations are putting one of cosmology’s most basic assumptions to the test: that galaxies ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

New research now makes the search for new physics easier. “New physics is about searching for unknown physical phenomena not known from the current perception of the universe.

Researchers used Google’s quantum processor to simulate fundamental physics, offering a new way to study the universe’s basic forces and particles. The fundamental forces that shape our universe are ...

A theory holds that dark matter could be involved in a mirror universe and that runs backwards before the Big Bang.

Scientists using Google’s quantum processor have taken a major step toward unraveling the deepest mysteries of the universe.

How can the tiniest particles and the vast structure of the universe be explained using the same kind of mathematics? This puzzle is the focus of recent research by mathematicians Claudia Fevola ...

Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that connect them.

A recent resurgence of interest in a bold cosmological theory has reignited debate about the nature of dark matter, the Big ...

In modern physics, there is a highly controversial hypothesis: the "holographic universe theory." According to this theory, ...

Using a quasar located 12.3 billion light-years away as a beacon, a team of astronomers detected the presence of molecular hydrogen in the farthest system ever, an otherwise invisible galaxy that w… ...

Computers are now so powerful that researchers have been able to solve Einstein’s equations of general relativity in a cosmological setting, as Tom Giblin, James Mertens and Glenn Starkman reveal ...