Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes thought to have formed moments after the Big Bang. Because they supposedly formed about 14 billion years ago, and black holes are thought to ...

New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...

A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

The formation of black holes is typically closely related to the collapse of massive stars, which are among the heaviest entities in the universe. However, in 1970, Hawking proposed another ...

A backward, mirror universe could explain the existence of dark matter. If an anti-universe exists, it would run backward in time, before the Big Bang. Dark matter, then, could be right-handed ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic and luminous explosions in the universe. However, they are fleeting and often ...

The team explores one of the greatest discoveries of modern astronomy - that our universe is expanding - and the new ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

Physicists think we could see such an explosion in the next 10 years - and it would 'revolutionize physics and rewrite the history of the universe'. This artist’s concept takes a fanciful approach to ...

The John N. Bahcall Lecture Series Presenter: Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University Exploding stars halfway across the universe show that the expansion of the universe is ...