Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from? Finding out if they are, in fact, constant is the key to ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way. That means ...

We can never 100% prove that the constants really are constant. There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from?