The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...

For decades, astronomers have believed that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the universe. However, a new study ...

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

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, co-founded by UC Santa Barbara physicists, mark a major step in defining what dark matter can — and cannot — be ...

Durham researchers Dark energy and black holes are possibly two of the most elusive concepts ever analyzed by experts. A ...

A new study argues that dark matter and dark energy might be illusions caused by the universe’s forces fading over time. For many years, scientists have thought that dark matter and dark energy make ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

Last year, we reported on an exciting hint of new physics in the first data analysis results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)—namely that the dark energy, rather than being ...

At a beachfront convention center in Cancún, Mexico, last December, Seshadri Nadathur presented a confidential growth chart of the universe. Seated in the audience, hundreds of his fellow scientists ...

Ask most astronomers, and they'll tell you that dark matter and dark energy make up more than 95 percent of the universe and that they are the explanations for many of the large-scale phenomena we ...