The latest generation of astronomy algorithms is not just cataloguing stars and galaxies, it is learning the hidden rules ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

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In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.

Physicists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: our familiar universe of three dimensions of space and one of ...

Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they ...

One of the weirdest theories in cosmology is the holographic principle, the idea that our universe is a three-dimensional image projected off a two-dimensional surface — the idea that, yes, we are ...

As theoretical physics delves deeper into the fundamental nature of reality, we’re left to grapple with the questions it leaves us. For example, some physicists claim that our universe is merely an ...