George Chapline believes that the Event Horizon Telescope will offer evidence that black holes are really dark energy stars. NASAWhat does the supermassive black hole at the center…

For something called the Standard Model, the foundational theory of particle physics is confronting a lengthy list of non-standard data. Neutrino oscillations, dark matter and energy,…

It seemed inevitable that Elon Musk would eventually get into a Twitter war over whether Mars can be terraformed. When you’re on Twitter, he told Businessweek in July, you’re “in…

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog.Astronomers have known where the universe’s missing matter has been hiding for the past 20 years. So why did…

The sun formed 4.5 billion years ago, but it’s got around 6 billion years more before its fuel runs out. It will then flare up, engulfing the inner planets. And the expanding universe…

Poets often think of time as a river, a free-flowing stream that carries us from the radiant morning of birth to the golden twilight of old age. It is the span that separates the delicate…

It is hard to overstate the anticipation that preceded the opening of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 10 years ago. Smashing protons together at energies well above those produced…

Perhaps God has many more seasonsin store for us—or perhaps the last is to bethis winterthat guides back the wavesof the Tyrrhenian Seato break againstthe rough pumice cliffs.You…

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog.The amount of energy infusing empty space seems too small to explain without a multiverse. But physicists have…

If you can’t find dark matter, look first for a dark force.While cosmologists may be fascinated by what dark matter does, particle physicists are fascinated by what dark matter is.…