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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever fancied the idea that somewhere out there, there's another you? That in a faraway mirrored universe, there's another version of yourself. The mirror universe is usually an interest in ...

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 ...

New insights into Milky Way satellite galaxies raise awkward questions for cosmologists. As modern cosmologists rely more and more on the ominous “dark matter” to explain otherwise inexplicable ...

James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. Early Tuesday morning, three physicists—James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz—were rewarded for decades ...

Stephen Hawking, the legendary theoretical physicist and author of “A Brief History of Time,” has died. He was 76. A family spokesman confirmed the news to the BBC. Hawking was one of the most notable ...