Cosmologists are finally beginning to sketch a coherent picture of the universe we cannot see, using exquisitely detailed ...

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The question of whether the cosmos goes on forever is no longer just a late night thought experiment, it is a live research ...

Out there in the Universe, there are plenty of amazing things waiting to be discovered. At every level of reality, there’s a great set of mysteries, puzzles, and facts just waiting for us to uncover ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

"If these results are confirmed, it would mark a major paradigm shift in cosmology since the discovery of dark energy 27 years ago." As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, ...

"We already see indications of cracks in the standard model." Are we living in a simulation? Well, the jury's out on that one. But humans do create simulations all the time. In fact, the Euclid ...

Ian G. McCarthy receives funding from UKRI's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). He works for Liverpool John Moores University. Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is ...

Tinkering at their desks with the mathematics of quantum space and time, physicists have discovered a puzzling conundrum. The arcane rules of quantum theory and gravity let them imagine many different ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The new Ultimate Universe has a year on the Absolute Universe, but I don’t think that has hurt the ...