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We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole new model to account for gravity’s influence.

A tremendously large cloud that blocked the light from a distant star has been found to consist of swirling winds of ...

There's a lot of the universe that we've come to fully understand already—and some scientists suggest that we've arrived near ...

A black hole 11.6 billion light-years away is breaking a speed limit for feeding, offering clues about the early universe's ...

Delve into the detail of atomic physics. As the basic units of matter, atoms are the building blocks for everything in the universe. Once thought to be indivisible, we now know they can indeed be ...

The Big Bang's early moments were crucial for nucleosynthesis, leading to the formation of light elements and influencing the ...

There are still some great mysteries of our universe that physicists can't explain. How is that possible? Join us as we break ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Astronomers in Japan have discovered a supermassive black hole growing at impossible speed, breaking the cosmic Eddington ...

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if nothing else, the most expensive particle of all time. It's a bit of an unfair ...