An international team of researchers, including astronomers at the University of Surrey, has shed light on a decades-long debate about why galaxies rotate faster than expected, and whether this ...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...

Searching for clues in the Epoch of Reionization, scientists discovered that the universe was quite a bit warmer before the ...

In most Ancient Greek philosophical circles, the theory of a spherical earth was accepted by around the 5th century BC, and ...

"It's possible we will see the new data and confirm one theory over the other — or maybe we'll find nothing, in which case it ...

Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

October 23 is a very special date for many people. For fundamentalist evangelical Christians it marks the creation of the world in 4004BC. Some ...

In a world trained to see only the bricks, not the mortar, we miss the forces that bind us. From Rovelli’s physics to ...

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

Two experiments involving Imperial has created the world's most precise measurement of the difference between the mass of two types of neutrino.

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could ...