What was your favorite toy growing up? This paradox claims that memory—and every other one—is just a random fluctuation.

The galaxy could be an example of a hypothetical "dark galaxy" that astronomers have been searching for for decades.

I found a way to look into the universe,” says non-fiction Australian filmmaker Josef Gatti in his feature debut Phenomena. Paradoxically, it turns out that the wonders of the universe ...

Scientists propose a gravitational-wave method called the stochastic standard siren to measure the Hubble constant, offering an independent way to examine the universe’s expansion and the Hubble ...

Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles ...

Champaign Central physics teacher Darren Plattner will retire at the end of the year after 33 years at the school.

One of the most important ideas in physics is also one of the most misunderstood: entropy. It describes how energy naturally ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

Ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves may be the key to solving the Hubble tension — one of the biggest nagging problems in physics.

The catalogue of all the new 128 events observed by LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA from May 2023 to January 2024 is being published. It reveals an even greater variety of binary pairs producing gravitational ...

For decades, the Standard Cosmological Model has operated on a single, foundational assumption: the Big Bang happened everywhere at exactly the same time. Today, a newly released theoretical paper ...

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it's almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate one of the most ...