The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these ...

In moments of emergency, super-concentration, or meditation, people report moments of “time expansion experiences,” or ...

We can never 100% prove that the constants really are constant. There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from?

Researchers at Purdue spent years working with NASA engineers to figure out how to grow crops on Mars and beyond. Now the ...

Researchers suggest gravitational waves, not cosmic inflation, may have driven the universe’s formation. This model links ...