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.

Star Trek's iconic warp drive, once pure science fiction, is now inspiring real-world astrophysicists. Scientists are developing theoretical models t ...

As scientists get closer to putting humans on Mars, the need to understand why clocks tick faster on the red planet is more ...

Evolving dark matter may explain cosmic acceleration. Observations support a mixed model. For years, a stubborn puzzle has sat at the center of the standard cosmological model. The evidence clearly ...

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

A new collage from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals eight dazzling examples of gravitational lensing.