In particular this theory would unify our understanding of all the fundamental physical forces in our universe. There are four such forces that physicists know of: gravity (which keeps planets ...

The mathematics Albert Einstein devised to describe the gravitational workings of the physical Universe in the early 20th ...

A supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US has just pulled off the largest astrophysical simulation of the ...

Back in the 1960s, Frank Drake, an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist, proposed an equation aimed at estimating the ...

Space-time may not be continuous but instead made up of many discrete bits – and we may be able to see their effects near the ...

The largest magnetic fields in the universe may have found themselves charged up when the first stars began to shine, ...

One possibility is that we live in a physical universe in which life is a fluke; a biological universe in which life is common; or a post-biological universe in which biological life has mostly or ...

Tim Maudlin, New York University "The Universe could have been of such a nature that no life at all could exist. The anthropic question asks why the constants of nature that enter various physical ...