Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago have developed physics-based models suggesting that dark energy could be ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Astroparticle physics and particle cosmology represent converging disciplines that strive to understand the universe from its largest structures down to its most fundamental constituents. In this ...

Recent scientific discussions suggest that the fourth dimension might be concealed within our everyday perception of reality, ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

“This year’s Nobel laureates in physics have painted a picture of a universe far stranger and more wonderful than we ever could have imagined.” Theoretical physicist Ulf Danielsson from Uppsala ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

Early in the morning on Tuesday, Oct. 8, Princeton physicist James Peebles got a call from Sweden. His first thought was, “When you receive a phone call that early in the morning, it’s usually ...

THIS YEAR’S Nobel prize for physics was split two ways, but both halves went for discoveries beyond Earth. One was for a finding that is, by astronomical standards, quite close by—a planet going ...