It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

Much like a 3D hologram emerges from the information encoded on a 2D surface, our universe’s 4D space­­time could be a holographic projection of a lower-dimensional reality. Specifically, Maldacena ...

Wormholes, conceptual tunnels slicing through spacetime, offer a theoretical shortcut between two distant cosmic points.

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using ...

Of all the posited answers, experts say the Dark Forest hypothesis seems less likely to be correct. It’s possible that ...