Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

Gravity can exist without mass.” It’s a statement that upends a century of astrophysical dogma and, for some, sounds as ...

The idea of a particle that races faster than light has long fascinated physicists. Known as the tachyon, it was originally ...

A computational paradigm that can accurately simulate interactions between powerful laser beams and quantum fluctuations in a ...

Dark matter, although not visible, is believed to make up most of the total mass of the universe. One theory suggests that ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

A festinating new theory shifts focus from space to time, arguing the clock-ticking we take for granted is richer and weirder ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

A physicist proposes that time has three dimensions instead of one, which could finally unite quantum mechanics and ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

It is believed that matter, motion, gravity, and everything else we know of originated from the three dimensions of space and ...

Nearly a decade ago, a detector searching for ghostly cosmic particles found two anomalous signals in Antarctic ice. But ...