He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

Recent astronomical observations have unveiled unexpected patterns in the spins of galaxies throughout the universe, leaving ...

A group of scientists may have stumbled upon a radical new way to do cosmology. Cosmologists usually determine the composition of the universe by observing as much of it as possible. But these ...

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

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

Astronomers have detected a million-solar-mass “blob of darkness” in a distant galaxy, possibly a rare dark matter clump ...

A spacecraft that’s exploring the dark universe has released its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Named Euclid after the ancient Greek “father of geometry,” the satellite was developed by the ...

Using the ALMA telescope in Chile and Einstein's theory of relativity, scientists observed a young galaxy in the early universe that is invisible in nearly every wavelength. When you purchase through ...

Periodically, the European Space Agency (ESA) releases images that provide breathtaking views of the cosmos, courtesy of its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the science of communication, from speech to space. The international team of scientists, led by Dr. Ken-ichi Tadaki ...

In the late 1990s, cosmologists made a prediction about how much ordinary matter there should be in the universe. About 5%, they estimated, should be regular stuff with the rest a mixture of dark ...

A strangely sedate galaxy in the early universe may upend our ideas about how galaxies form. We think most young galaxies in the early cosmos ought to be chaotic and turbulent, but galaxy SPT-SJ041839 ...