For more than a century, physics has treated space and time as the smooth stage on which the universe unfolds, a flexible ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

Scientists say fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe—not particles and waves.

The discovery of an extremely metal-poor galaxy, observed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, opens a fissure in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests ...

A new hypothesis known as the Quantum Memory Matrix (QMM) could help explain some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, including the Black Hole Information Paradox. The idea is that space-time ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

Even if it turns out that time loops never take shape, studying them provides key insights into the deepest rules of reality.

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. About a century ago, scientists were struggling to ...