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

A series of viral social media posts drew attention to an old cosmological theory-that our universe began from a collision ...

Ever wondered how physicists got a reputation for being boring, cosmologists tedious? Wonder no more as Horizon shows what these some of these highly intelligent doyens of the science world have been ...

In 1998, astronomers discovered dark energy. The finding, which transformed our conception of the cosmos, came with a little-known consequence: It threw a wrench into the already daunting task of ...