Recent observational breakthroughs are beginning to challenge the long-standing view of dark energy as unchanging. Data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument ( DESI ), an advanced survey ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

The Hubble tension is especially troubling because it involves two sets of measurements that offer conflicting views of the ...

JWST spots a mature early-universe spiral as CERN reveals how light nuclei form in extreme collisions, challenging core ...

How can we study phenomena that go beyond the three dimensions of the world we know? For his research on "synthetic dimensions", Konstanz-based physicist Oded Zilberberg was awarded an ERC ...

In a new study published in The Open Journal of Astrophysics, scientists have unveiled a new mapping of the universe’s ...

Astronomers are closing in on a result so statistically secure that, in their language, it borders on certainty: a 99.9999999 ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

About two decades ago, in 1998, a supernova observation began to slowly reveal the contours of the enigmatic universe. The ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...