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

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

We obviously can’t put the universe on a giant set of scales, but scientists have found astonishingly clever ways to […] ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

A new look at radio maps of the sky shows a pronounced tilt, called a dipole, that astronomers are still unable to explain ...

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

George Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation” in 2006, has died at home at the age of ...

To answer Robertson: The Higgs field doesn’t appear to have more valleys to explore, according to our current understanding.

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...