For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth ...

If true (and it’s a pretty big “if”), Vopson’s new gravitational study would shake the foundations of the currently accepted view of the universe. In his paper, Vopson writes that his new work could ...

Across physics, biology and philosophy, a once-fringe idea is gaining new intellectual weight: the possibility that the ...

"The Romance of Reality" explains how life and consciousness can proliferate despite the seeming contradiction between ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy will inevitably increase. Eventually, it will make life in the universe impossible. What does this mean? And is it correct?

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

Penrose's idea of a conformal cyclic cosmology hypothesizes that our Universe arose from a pre-existing Universe that would leave imprints on our cosmos today. This is a fascinating and imaginative ...

As recently as the 1920s, astronomers thought the Milky Way galaxy was the entire universe. Now we know it’s one of hundreds of billions of similar galaxies out there. Last fall Sean Carroll and ...