Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In space, there are four dimensions: length, width, height and time. scaliger/iStock/NASA via Getty Images Plus About a century ...

A new AI-powered method is changing how scientists measure the universe. Developed by researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their partners, this technique offers a far more accurate way to ...

Scientists have shared a new theory about how the universe might end, not by fading away slowly, but by collapsing in on itself in what they call a “reverse Big Bang.” The idea suggests that after ...

Neutrinos are one of the most elusive and omnipresent particles in the universe. Their strange properties may explain why the amounts of matter and antimatter in our universe aren’t equal, as most ...

Subir Sarkar receives funding from the UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) councils. The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, falling apart on cosmic scales. If you’re on the surface of Earth—and I’m ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted worldwide by ...