Deep under an Italian mountainside, a giant detector filled with tons of liquid xenon has been looking for dark matter—particles of a mysterious substance whose effects we can see in the universe, but ...

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable force known as dark energy. Now, a new study might upend that idea, ...

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of cosmology. “What we found is a network of enormous ...

Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home for a very, very long time. Our understanding of the future of the ...

An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing nearly 800,000 galaxies stretching back ...

A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang. There are different versions of the “multiverse.” The most popular model—that of ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their reflected forms. Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta and see more of the ...

For a few physicists, the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning of the universe. Rather, they say, the universe existed before that point, stretching forever into the past as well as the future. While the ...