A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

One of the strangest facts in computer science is that it's really hard to generate true random numbers. For a computer, ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist steeped in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Upanishads, delivered a series ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

A project to map galaxies across the universe may have spied cracks in the foundation of our understanding of the cosmos.

Scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed one of the biggest head-scratchers in modern physics—the universe isn’t expanding at a single, consistent rate. Instead, its ...

Some have speculated that each universe could also have its own separate laws of physics. However, the concept of the multiverse is not a scientific theory in and of itself. Instead, it is a ...

New research suggests it could be evidence that Stephen Hawking was right about the nature of black holes and the early universe.

It suggests that the concept of "quantum gravity" could arise from entropy, possibly solving puzzles put forth by the elusive dark universe — and, if true, this novel theory could also finally ...

In a preprint submitted to The Astrophysical Journal and uploaded to arXiv, a large international team of astronomers led by Seiji Fujimoto of the University of Texas at Austin has described what they ...