For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...

Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in ...

India’s scientific community has quietly handed the world one of its most intriguing puzzles: a massive, elegantly structured spiral galaxy that existed when the universe was barely 1.5 billion years ...

A new theory for the origins of dark matter suggests that fast-moving, neutrino-like dark particles could have decoupled from ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...