Quirks & Quarks is having its 50th anniversary this fall. Bob McDonald shares his appreciation for the people behind the ...

That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that uncertainty produces others, too: it makes it impossible to calculate an exact age ...

— Live Science crossword puzzle #3: Mathematical term for a whole number — 5 down ...

New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — ...

While radio waves are the method of choice when searching for signals of intelligent alien life, other detectable signs also ...

What do quarks, electrons, and photons have in common? They’re all part of the Standard Model - the theory that helped ...

A backward, mirror universe could explain the existence of dark matter. If an anti-universe exists, it would run backward in ...

For decades scientists believed the universe was built on ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy. These unseen forces ...

The universe has several apparently fixed constants—such as the strength of gravity—but those properties might not be so special.

Why the Universe Is Becoming More Habitable The universe is far more welcoming to life today than it was when microbes on Earth arose—and will only grow more so ...

And then, we can shift our inquiry from “Is the universe a computer simulation?” to “Can we model the universe as a computer simulation?” These are two very different questions.

It's got the least impressive name of the four fundamentals, but it by no means played a minor part in how our universe came together. As Live Science previously reported, weak is the force of decay.