The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is gone forever. According to quantum theory, that is impossible. Information ...

How old are the stars? Even with the most accurate tools currently available for modeling stellar evolution, the answer ...

Astronomers have traced the hidden fingerprints of dark matter by observing rare, glowing galaxies that lived in the early ...

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

The plot represents the new model with the x-axis and the y-axis showing the minimum sizes of collapsing and expanding regions that can impact cosmological measurements. The contours are independent ...

Published in Physics Letters B, the study provides a new perspective for exploring the evolution of matter in the early universe. About 13.8 billion years ago, within a millionth of a second after the ...

On transmuting Boyle's law to Darwin's revolution / Stephen Jay Gould -- The evolution of cellular development / Lewis Wolpert -- The evolution of guns and germs / Jared Diamond -- The evolution of ...

An international team of scientists has unveiled the Flagship 2 galaxy mock-up. No, it's not a cardboard diorama for a school science fair, but is instead the most massive and detailed cosmological si ...

The universe may have been born out of nothing, with an "anti-universe" twin where time runs in the opposite direction—rather than exploding from an infinitely small and dense point, or "singularity." ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

Since the early 20th century, scientists have gathered compelling evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating ...