Dissident scientists advocating a controversial theory of the universe are having a field day in the wake of NASA's Deep Impact comet collision earlier this month. Scientists promoting the Electric ...

In A Nutshell When two different types of cosmic strings become linked in the early universe, they form stable knots that ...

For centuries, gravity has been the cornerstone of physics—but what if it’s not the universe’s true force? The Electric Universe theory claims that invisible cosmic currents shape stars, planets, and ...

As part of ongoing efforts to derive a scientifically testable multiverse theory, a team of researchers proposed recently that parallel universes exist and that they influence each other. The theory ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

The largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos hints that the dark energy that’s fueling the universe’s expansion may be weakening. One community of theoretical physicists expected as much. On the morning of ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of How to Die in Space. He contributed this article to ...

THE partial success which has attended the recent attempts of Einstein and Minkowski to found an electromagnetic system of mechanics has tended to strengthen the popular idea that the solution of ...

On June 25, Timm Wrase awoke in Vienna and groggily scrolled through an online repository of newly posted physics papers. One title startled him into full consciousness. But now, Vafa and his ...