How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago.

The study seeks to explain the presence of dark matter using a WED model. The scientists studied fermion masses, which they ...

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

The difference in errors between the US GFS model and Google’s DeepMind is remarkable. At five days, the Google forecast had ...

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates ...