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

For two decades, scientists believed the cosmological constant, known as λ (lambda), was positive. That meant the Universe ...

The universe is expanding, and while that fact is fascinating, it also creates a question that trips people up: if it’s growing, what exactly is it expanding into? Our brains are used to picturing ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...

To answer Robertson: The Higgs field doesn’t appear to have more valleys to explore, according to our current understanding.

This week, researchers reported the discovery of four Late Bronze Age stone megastructures likely used for trapping herds of ...

In physics, the evolution of the universe has so far been described by the general theory of relativity and the so-called Friedmann equations. However, in order to explain the observed expansion of ...