What is the meaning of life? Even the best of us couldn't hope to answer that question in a Universe Today article. But there ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the universe and exploring ...

Researchers in Vienna have discovered something remarkable: crystals that don’t form in space, like diamonds or salt, but in time itself. Instead of atoms arranging neatly into repeating patterns, ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, ...

Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel prizes.

Whether space-time exists should neither be controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of “space-time,” “events” and “instants.” The id ...

LIGO observatory near Richland confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also has proven one of Hawking’s theorems.

Three sixth-form students are back home after attending this year’s United Space School in Houston, Texas. The annual Space ...

For Pennsylvania residents, Penrose represents a tradition worth preserving – the kind of place you bring out-of-town guests to show them what real diner food tastes like, or where you gather for ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...