It expanded so fast that in about a trillionth of a trillionth of a billionth of a second, a chunk of space the size of an atom would have exploded into a size far larger than our solar system. It ...

Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches. At the same time, there are more H 2 O molecules in just 10 drops of water ...

Special thanks to Chuankun Zhang, Tian Ooi, Jacob S. Higgins, and Jack F. Doyle from Prof. Jun Ye's lab at JILA/NIST/University of Colorado, as well as Prof. Victor Flambaum from UNS ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

Understanding the properties of quark-gluon plasmas could help physicists understand the universe mere moments after the Big ...

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Now for the bad news. Someday, in the far-distant future, eons beyond its 13.8-billion-year adolescence, the universe could suffer a “false vacuum decay.” This would involve a “bubble” of ...