The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

In its first year of full operations, the Euclid space telescope has quietly built one of the most ambitious maps of the ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

A striking reality faces modern cosmology: two of the most advanced telescopes ever built now agree on a result that the standard cosmological model cannot explain. Webb’s confirmation of the Hubble ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope ...

This is the light echo of the Big Bang, the first light that freely moved through the universe. This relic is crucial to our ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

Ben Flatman examines how architect and artist Karl Singporewala weaves architecture, heritage and personal memory into a rich ...

In the deep canyons of Texas and northern Mexico, hidden in limestone rock shelters, spectacular mural paintings have guarded ...