The universe is expanding faster today than early cosmic measurements appear to allow. A proposed reversal in dark energy ...

Our universe is known to be remarkably homogeneous and isotropic. This essentially means that matter is distributed evenly ...

Einstein’s first leap In 1917, two years after completing his theory of general relativity, Albert Einstein built the first ...

Possible interactions between dark matter and neutrinos may help explain a persistent mismatch in how cosmic structure evolved.

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. In the late 1990s, two independent teams, the ...

For decades, astronomers have pictured galaxies and their central black holes growing together. In the familiar story, a young galaxy forms first. Gas gathers. Stars ignite. Somewhere near the crowded ...

With no Moon in the sky tonight, it’s a great opportunity to chase after fainter objects, such as the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) in Draco. High in the north a few hours after sunset, this planetary ...

A recent study in the journal Nature carries cosmos-quaking implications for our understanding of the universe—except a new ...

Scientific ideas sometimes have to wait decades for technology to catch up. Statistical algorithms developed at the Yerevan ...

From historical dramas and frontier classics to thoughtful documentaries and laugh-out-loud comedy, these six releases offer ...

Thor has one of the most varied power sets out there, but Marvel has forgotten about some of his more esoteric powers.

Working for months with staff members in the Department of Physics, a group of students and faculty from Brown and RISD ...