Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...

A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a ...

Infinity used to be the place where mathematics ran out of road, a hazy horizon rather than a mapped landscape. Now a pair of ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

I come from a large, competitive family, with untrammelled imaginations, where it’s not unknown for a member to exaggerate ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

Hints of a mirror cosmos have a way of gripping the imagination, and recent chatter about “first proof” of a parallel ...