Scientists have found that the universe exists because it began with a slight imbalance between matter and antimatter.

Mathematics and numbers are not just abstract ideas, but, as our sages tell us in so many places, they are essential to the ...

New research suggests the universe is conscious, and that it possesses a sense of purpose.

For decades scientists believed the universe was built on ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy. These unseen forces ...

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 ...

Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly ...

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.

The end of the universe is tied to dark energy, astronomers claim, and one day the universe could implode on itself.

A backward, mirror universe could explain the existence of dark matter. If an anti-universe exists, it would run backward in ...

Astronomers have discovered the most monstrous supermassive black hole ever. At 36 billion times more mass than our sun, it’s ...

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