Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in ...

It’s a powerful technique, but small uncertainties at each step can add up, something critics argue may be behind the Hubble ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out ...

The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...

The Carnegie Science Observatories has announced that Michael Blanton will become its 12th director, taking the helm of ...

"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends." ...