A peer-reviewed paper published in The European Physical Journal C presents a modification to Einstein’s general relativity ...

Now it seems that wormholes, those shortcut tunnels through time and space that Albert Einstein theorized and that science fiction depicts as portals between two distant galactic points, are at the ...

The Big Bang refers to that gigantic explosion responsible for setting up the universe to grow into the world we observe ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always ...

A team of physicists has proposed a specific modification to Einstein’s general relativity that could eliminate the Big Bang ...

For the last 40 years, a dedicated group of theoretical physicists has been beavering away on an ambitious project to create a quantum theory of gravity and unify the four forces of nature. Using ...

For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity. One explains the tiny world of particles; the other describes ...

Jason Lotay explains how mathematicians studying special geometries are collaborating with physicists to explore M-theory, an 11-dimensional description of the world that unifies the various string ...