Let me first tell you how mysterious dark energy is. Einstein added a cosmological constant to his equations to keep the ...

As the universe expands, it feels like it must be spreading out from some initial point. But a physicist explains why that’s ...

The universe rarely fails to amaze. One of its latest surprises—nicknamed the “Einstein zig-zag”—reveals a stunning arrangement of galaxies and a distant quasar. Together, they produce a gravitational ...

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed ...

A team of scientists claims a computational tool for studying black hole collisions could be our best bet for answering ...

For more than two decades, the standard model of cosmology has stood as a reliable guide to the universe. Known as Lambda ...

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently ...

Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes still reverberate to the present ...

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...