Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary materials to build everything from planets to asteroids. But what it actually looks ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Physicists have taken the Universe’s temperature, revealing the searing trillion-degree heat of the Big Bang’s first plasma.

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

Quantum mechanics predicts that particles can exist in multiple states at once — a phenomenon explained by the many-worlds ...

Physicists agree that an awful lot went on in the first few seconds after the Big Bang, a lot of it in incomprehensibly tiny ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for ...

I wonder how many discoveries in human history were made because someone thought: Let’s take a look around the corner? This ...

A new fault-tolerant architecture using 448 atomic qubits suppresses errors past the critical point needed for scaling.

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on ...