India’s scientific community has quietly handed the world one of its most intriguing puzzles: a massive, elegantly structured spiral galaxy that existed when the universe was barely 1.5 billion years ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin pictured atoms as tiny knots in an invisible medium called the ether. That picture turned out to be wrong, since atoms are built ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Just 570 million years after the Big Bang, a young, compact galaxy named CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 appears to host a supermassive black ...

A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the ...

A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly ...

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The filament is a part of the vast cosmic web composed primarily of dark matter and interspersed with lighter layers of ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

Astronomers have unveiled Quipu, a colossal cosmic mega-structure stretching 1.3 billion light-years, more than 13,000 times ...

Abstract: This article studies the formation control problem of multiple uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) under time-varying external disturbances. The formation system is composed of a leader UUV ...