How shipwrecks and ancient Roman lead help physicists search for dark matter
When a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck was found off the Sardinian coast in 1988, it didn’t just thrill archaeologists…
New model reveals how supermassive stars shaped the early universe
Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest…
The most violent event in the universe could be visible from Earth in less than 10 years
The universe is a vast place in which many cosmic events occur regularly. And in less than ten…
The universe is not and could never be a simulation, study finds
Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to…
Physicists Just Ruled Out The Universe Being a Simulation
A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps…
New image captures spooky bat signal in the sky
Press Release 31 October 2025 A spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s)…
Universe Is Not a Computer Simulation, New Study Says
A team of physicists from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy has mathematically shown that…
Photographers in Space and on Earth Capture Same Scenes at Same Time
In October 2024, the aurora borealis lit up Earth. Astronaut Don Pettit captured it from the ISS, while…
Dark matter may end our universe in a ‘Big Crunch’
Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven…
Six billion tonnes a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate
Press Release 2 October 2025 Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike…
Most detailed universe simulation yet: ESA’s Euclid project maps 3.4 billion galaxies
The catalogue describes each galaxy using more than 400 properties, including brightness, shape, velocity, and star formation rate.…
What’ll be humans’ role in next complexity cascade – Opinion
LI MIN/CHINA DAILY The universe is not static. It evolves through what I call in my new book…