How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ...

Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological scales. This could help to dismiss the possibility of a fifth fundamental force ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have designed a class of molecules whose ability to amplify light energy can be actively ...

Scientists at CERN have observed a rare phenomenon where a single top quark formed alongside W and Z bosons for the first ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...