Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

There's a certain logic to how human civilization operates. Some say it's predetermined by physics, others point to ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest of the universe is on a downward trajectory, too. In new research that gauged several vital signs of ...

It is widely thought that our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. But could we have that wrong? That is what a group of scientists from South Korea claims, but other scientists have ...

ABSTRACT: The apparent late-time acceleration of cosmic expansion can be consistently explained without invoking a dark energy component when interpreted within the Four-Dimensional Electromagnetic ...

In 2009 at Manton, Wiltshire, UK, a stand-alone pattern appeared. A peculiar stark design, it attracted little in the way of analysis going largely unexplored. European Standing Stones: The Mute ...

An antimatter universe that serves in solving the problem of matter-antimatter asymmetry and might shed light on the nature of dark energy was proposed in a previous publication. The present article ...