Astronomers have stumbled onto a structure so vast and so oddly shaped that it threatens to upend one of cosmology’s most ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking ...

This December, the SciFri Book Club will read The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean M. Carroll. This New York Times bestseller transforms intimidating physics equations ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is a ...

Our existence rests on a razor‑thin imbalance in the early cosmos. When the universe was young, matter and antimatter should ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the driving force behind creation. Their simulations show that gravity and ...