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

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

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

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 ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The fate of the cosmos may be a bit different than previously expected. For years, ...

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 ...

The first chemical reactions in the wake of the Big Bang have been recreated for the first time in conditions similar to those in the baby Universe.

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study ...

From early experiments with lanterns to Einstein’s revelations about space and time, the speed of light has proven to be far ...

Astronomers have discovered the most monstrous supermassive black hole ever. At 36 billion times more mass than our sun, it’s ...