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A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

For years, dark matter has puzzled scientists, lurking in the universe’s vast expanse yet eluding direct detection. This ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

"Challenging long-held assumptions is essential to scientific progress." A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

This idea was once thought to lie beyond the reach of scientific inquiry,” said physicist Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia.

Scientists are exploring a revolutionary theory that suggests human consciousness might operate as a quantum hologram, ...

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

Photos and videos of astronauts on the ISS show them floating around, but saying there's zero gravity isn't fully accurate. Here's what's actually going on.

A mathematical test for the nature of space-time – the fabric of physical reality – may be the first step towards novel computer-like devices that process information using gravity. Eleftherios-Ermis ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb says interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may show forces beyond gravity. Scientists using JWST and Swift report ...