“We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." Reading time 2 minutes It’s been a fantastic week for Stephen Hawking’s black hole ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

A Queen's University scientist has been chosen to lead an international €2.3million hunt to discover how the first chemical elements were created in the Universe. Professor Stephen Smartt, Director of ...

Physicists think we could see such an explosion in the next 10 years - and it would 'revolutionize physics and rewrite the history of the universe'. This artist’s concept takes a fanciful approach to ...

But most of the gold on Earth isn’t in our hands; it’s deep underground. During the planet’s formation, heavy elements like ...