The description of creation encourages both intellectual and spiritual connection with the divine essence. In contemplating ...

The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends. Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists?

A mysterious population of glowing red dots scattered across the early universe has led astronomers to a startling new theory: these objects may not be ancient galaxies, but instead an entirely new ...

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The fate of the cosmos may be a bit different than previously expected. For years, ...

The first chemical reactions in the wake of the Big Bang have been recreated for the first time in conditions similar to those in the baby Universe.

That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that uncertainty produces others, too: it makes it impossible to calculate an exact age ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

From early experiments with lanterns to Einstein’s revelations about space and time, the speed of light has proven to be far ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma which permeates our Universe, providing insights into magnetic fields and gas ...