We consider a vacuum to be the lowest energy state of the Universe. But it's possible that there's an even lower-energy, more ...

The conclusion of DESI's first survey marks an important milestone for cosmology, which finds itself in a bind for the best ...

Physicists have successfully simulated false vacuum decay, a quantum process theorized to be capable ...

Before our universe existed, another one may have collapsed in on itself, and some of its black holes may have survived the ...

The cosmological constant has been a problem in physics since Einstein, but new research may show why it takes the value that ...

Professor of Theoretical Physics Risto Paatelainen from the University of Turku in Finland has spent nearly ten years working ...

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The team successfully built the largest, highest-resolution 3D map of the cosmos ever constructed. The completed map charts ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

Most people think the multiverse is just about "what-if" scenarios – other versions of you where you took that job in another ...

Interest in the multiverse theory, suggesting that our universe is just one of many, spiked following the release of the movie "Everything Everywhere All At Once." The film follows Evelyn Wang on her ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...