Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved.

Matrix models have emerged as a powerful framework in theoretical physics, offering a nonperturbative approach to describing quantum space-time. In these models, fundamental degrees of freedom are ...

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the universe seems to be expanding faster than expected, throwing a wrench into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope. Something is awry in our expanding cosmos. Nearly a century ago, the ...

The UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy has established a research program in modern cosmology – an entirely new field of research at the university. The new program builds upon the ...

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The problem with studying the universe around us is that it is simply too big. The stars overhead remain too far away to interact with directly, so we are relegated to testing our theories on the ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

Consensus on the universe’s expansion rate might be near, thanks to the James Webb telescope The biggest clash in cosmology might be inching closer to resolution, thanks to the James Webb Space ...

A view of thousands of galaxies in the galaxy cluster MACS0416, combining data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA Something very strange is going on in the ...

Cosmology is a grand science; it takes our imagination into the vast depths of the Universe. The Universe is so big that we cannot, in principle, see the whole of it. The universe, observable to earth ...