The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends. Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists?

Astronomers once thought the universe's first stars (made of hydrogen and helium) were nearly all giants, hundreds to ...

Information could become the fifth state of matter alongside gas, plasma, liquid, and solid states. A scientist has proposed ...

That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that uncertainty produces others, too: it makes it impossible to calculate an exact age ...

New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — ...

The first chemical reactions in the wake of the Big Bang have been recreated for the first time in conditions similar to those in the baby Universe.

For decades scientists believed the universe was built on ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy. These unseen forces ...

Astronomers have discovered the most monstrous supermassive black hole ever. At 36 billion times more mass than our sun, it’s ...

A backward, mirror universe could explain the existence of dark matter. If an anti-universe exists, it would run backward in ...

An international group of neuroscientists joined forces to produce a landmark neural map, which revealed that decision-making ...