Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable ...

Search engine outfit Google has boldly claimed that its latest quantum chip, Willow, might be tapping into parallel universes to achieve its jaw-dropping performance. We already reported that Willow ...

When astronomer Vera C. Rubin was growing up, she built her own telescope to watch the night sky from her bedroom in Washington, D.C. After being rejected from Princeton for graduate school (where ...

The Milky Way today may fire up one new star every year, but billions of years ago massive bright galaxies in the relatively young universe were producing new stars at a rate of 1,000 per year. Now, a ...

Google has announced a new chip it considers to be a major milestone on the road to the future of computing. Named Willow, the chip is key to Google's plans to build a scaled-up quantum computer – a ...