Researchers are using machine learning, symbolic regression, and high-performance computing to explore and classify string ...

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

In the late 19th century, classical physics seemed complete. Scientists believed they had uncovered all the laws governing ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...

Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

The Big Bang may mark an end—not the start—of a previous universe's aeon. Penrose's theory sees the universe as an eternal ...

Kanta Dihal explores why quantum mechanics captures the imagination of writers – and how ‘quantum culture’ affects the public ...