RUDN University astrophysicists have gathered the most important discoveries of modern cosmology from 1917 to our time. The collected data became an introduction to Philosophical Transactions of the ...

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 ...

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

In this special guest feature, Linda Barney writes that researchers at the University of Cambridge are using an Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor-based supercomputer from SGI to accelerate discovery efforts.

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later. But some have proposed that it went the other ...

Johns Hopkins University theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski is one of three physicists to be awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their contributions to methods essential for studying the ...

Hang Su ’23 has always been fascinated by physics and how it helps explain the natural world. Eager to learn as much as she can about how the world works, she hopes to make her own meaningful impact ...

A theory that unites quantum mechanics and general relativity claims that there was no first moment in time, but it still agrees with the predictions of classical cosmology. It's in the stars One of ...

Imagine you wanted to know everything you could about the Universe. You'd want to find the answers to questions of all types, such as: What is the Universe made of? How big is the entire Universe? How ...