A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

A research race has ignited among astronomers over 'little red dots' (LRDs), unidentified celestial objects primarily found ...

AI improves the precision of cosmological parameter measurements. This AI method is significantly more cost-effective than traditional approaches. The AI analyzes both large and small-scale galaxy ...

Dr. Tomer Shenar, Guy Shtainer, Roey Ovadia & Zehava Katabi. A study led by Dr. Tomer Shenar from TAU's School of ...

Before the cosmos lit up with stars and galaxies, the universe passed through a dark, silent era. But new findings suggest ...

Calculating the total mass of the universe is not simple, because most of the mass is invisible. In a pie chart of the contents of the universe, only 5 percent is normal matter, atoms that make up all ...

Vogelsberger grew up in Germany, and received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Mainz and his PhD from the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics ...