A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

Physicists at CERN have discovered a tiny asymmetry in charm quarks that may explain why matter survived the Big Bang. This video breaks down how a small rule break in particle physics could be the ...

Supernovae aren't one of the JWST's main science themes, but the perceptive telescope is full of surprises. Recently, it ...

The longest gamma-ray burst ever observed has UNC Chapel Hill astronomers questioning the very nature of these cosmic ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Astronomers are a step closer to cracking one of the secrets of dark energy—the mysterious force believed to be causing the universe's accelerated expansion.

“Our latest discovery helps solve a 20-year cosmic mystery,” co-lead author Daniel Whalen from the University of Portsmouth's ...

Ramón Méndez Galain was a Urguayan theoretical physics professor studying the Big Bang when the president of Uruguay shocked ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

I’ll never forget the first time I went hiking in Aspen. I was a young starting professor attending a workshop at the Aspen ...