Dogs In a Pile, Deer Tick, The Floozies and Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country are among the acts slated to perform at The 2026 ...

An artist's impression of the size and location of the Big Ring (blue) and Giant Arc (red) in the sky. (University of Central ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new set of questions. Reading time 3 minutes Composite image showing the massive ...

On January 22, 2025, physicists unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of the universe and potentially unlock the secrets of time travel. The existence of ...

A new idea revives a 19th-century vision with a modern twist: unusual cosmic “knots” in the newborn universe may have helped nudge reality toward matter, not antimatter. In this picture, tangled loops ...

A long-dismissed idea involving “cosmic knots” could help explain several of the universe’s most perplexing mysteries—including the origins of neutrino masses, dark matter, and the imbalance between ...

Knots emerge in various fields of mathematics and physics today. A team of physicists from Japan and Germany suggests that, during the early Universe, a ‘knot dominated era’ may have existed, where ...

Our corner of the universe looks tidy at first glance. But pull back, and patterns begin to surface that stretch across billions of light-years. New mapping work hints that our own galaxy belongs to a ...

Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins, by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper, University of Chicago Press Originator turned sceptic Paul Steinhardt, pictured here at the University ...

String theory's equations give rise to a near infinite variety of potential universes in a 'landscape.' This landscape is surrounded by a 'swampland' of solutions that are incompatible with any ...

Ten years after the final notes rang out over the lush greenery of Berry Hill Farm in Summit Point, West Virginia, the All Good Music Festival finally made its triumphant return. With humble ...

The universe began with a bang—an explosion so intense, it forged the fabric of space and time itself. This pivotal moment, known as the Big Bang, marked the birth of everything we see, know, and are.