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 ...

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

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 ...

a chunk of space the size of an atom would have exploded into a size far larger than our solar system. It brought our slice of the universe — everything we can see in the night sky — from an ...

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 ...

Cynthia Chiang is searching for signs of the universe's first light Cynthia Chiang is searching for signs of the universe's first light Big Bang Poured Out "Liquid" Universe, Atom Smasher Hints ...