We all know space is cold, but some places are so extreme they make even Antarctica look comfortable. Scientists have discovered pockets of the universe that reach temperatures close to the absolute ...

Here's one of the coolest sentences you'll ever read: The International Space Station will soon be the coldest place in the known universe. A new instrument that will be sent to the ISS, called the ...

A team of researchers has developed a new quantum dilution refrigerator that could revolutionize quantum computing research.

It’s easy to guess where the hottest place in the universe might be—the core of a giant star, maybe, or a disk of gas heated to millions of degrees as it tries to cram its way into a super-massive ...

It's certainly been a cold week in Colorado, and the state was home to one of the coldest places in the universe. But people didn't feel it. Rather, it's in a quantum dilution refrigerator at the ...

Even the frigid depths of space are toasty by the standards of NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), an instrument being developed to study matter at extremely low temperatures. Share on Facebook (opens ...

Leftover light from the young universe has a major flaw, and we don't know how to fix it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

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Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

"It would be amazing if a simple rotation of the universe was the origin of dark energy." What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse?