The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

Biggest vs smallest - how do we measure up in the grand scheme of the universe? Explore the fascinating scales of existence, from quantum particles to the observable universe’s edge. A journey into ...

String theory is a purported theory of everything that physicists hope will one day explain … everything. All the forces, all the particles, all the constants, all the things under a single ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That’s the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues ...

An international team of scientists has come up with a new explanation for why space occupies three dimensions. The theory hinges upon flux tubes, which are comprised of quarks held together by gluons ...

What if reality is more than we can perceive? Scientists believe the universe may have 11 dimensions, shaping the very fabric of existence! Learn how string theory and higher dimensions could explain ...

Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they ...

Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That’s the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that UB physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010. They suggested that ...

This could be the way the world ends. First, a pair of cosmic protons smash together at unimaginable speeds. The tremendous energy of their crash would create a tiny, ephemeral black hole, so small ...

If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...