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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A discovery involving researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has, for the first time, revealed millisecond ...

Their research, published in The Astrophysical Journal, suggests that tiny primordial black holes (PBHs) could trigger these ...

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 ...