Many people wonder: if the universe is expanding, is there a point in space that serves as the “centre”? It seems intuitive to ask, how can something expand if there’s no specific starting point? The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What shape is the universe? This question is far more intriguing and truly unresolved than any debate over the shape of our planet ...

It may seem like the universe is one enormous (if not infinite) unit, but new research suggests it could one day be torn apart. Researchers built a theoretical model of the cosmos to explore what ...

Scientists may have uncovered a surprising secret behind why life exists at all. A new study suggests that the Universe’s fundamental constants — the deep physical rules that govern everything from ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new research showing how two powerful symmetries could have created stable ...

Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist ...