What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Brown University physics Prof. Stephon Alexander spoke on how the analysis of musical elements can help astrophysicists understand patterns of the universe in his lecture “The Jazz of Physics” ...

The multiverse theory suggests our universe may be just one of countless others — each with its own laws of physics, ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...

He was a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. After her adventures in Wonderland, the fictional Alice stepped through the mirror above her fireplace in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel ...

But what have been the most significant physics prizes of the 21st century? I’m including 2000 as part of this century (ignoring pedants who say it didn’t start till 1 January 2001 ). During that time ...