Researchers used Google’s quantum processor to simulate fundamental physics, offering a new way to study the universe’s basic forces and particles. The fundamental forces that shape our universe are ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single ...

In 1916, Albert Einstein discovered that his theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves — ...

Jeremiah Ostriker, an astrophysicist who helped set off a revolution in humankind's view of the universe, revealing it to be a vaster, darker realm than the one we can see, ruled by invisible ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by the forces that govern the movement of galaxies across vast stretches of space. A recent discovery, chronicled in a paper by scientists in 2014 (published in ...

A new interpretation of dark energy data suggests that the mysterious force, which accelerated the early universe's expansion ...