The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends. Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists?

The origin of our Universe remains one of the greatest enigmas of science, a question that seems to defy the limits of our ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the ...

That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that uncertainty produces others, too: it makes it impossible to calculate an exact age ...

He further reveals that the structure of the human brain exhibits deep isomorphism with the universe itself: the neural ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Astronomers once thought the universe's first stars (made of hydrogen and helium) were nearly all giants, hundreds to ...

Quirks & Quarks is having its 50th anniversary this fall. Bob McDonald shares his appreciation for the people behind the ...

The description of creation encourages both intellectual and spiritual connection with the divine essence. In contemplating ...

For decades scientists believed the universe was built on ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy. These unseen forces ...

A backward, mirror universe could explain the existence of dark matter. If an anti-universe exists, it would run backward in time, before the Big Bang. Dark matter, then, could be right-handed ...