Our understanding of the universe may be completely wrong.

Mind = blown.

Do you know what connects Edwin Hubble’s theory for an expanding universe and Albert Einstein’s cosmological constant? The ...

A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still daring to test it. Some theories of quantum gravity suggest light might ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...

The answer comes from a counterintuitive result of special relativity, a field of physics which is notoriously difficult to ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Why the universe is expanding faster and faster remains one of the biggest open questions in physics. Current theories cannot ...

The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the universe is expanding faster and faster remains one of the most intriguing ...

In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...