cosmology

High up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, miles away from the dull glow of light pollution, the secluded Atacama Cosmology…

A team of astronomers is reviving an idea that NASA sidelined a decade ago, in which a huge observatory would be…

A team of astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has produced the most…

New research, in which empirical data failed to jibe with theoretical calculations, shows just how much physicists…

“This is the way the world ends,” said T. S. Elliot in his famous poem, “Not with a bang but a whimper.” These days,…

Scientists have spent three decades trying to locate half of all the “normal” matter that’s supposed to exist in the…

Particle physicists have released the results of a decade-long search, taking us a crucial step closer toward…

Is the universe’s expansion the same everywhere? New research suggests it’s not—which could have huge implications…

A typical neutron star measures 22 kilometers (13.6 miles) wide, according to new research. It’s the most accurate…

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence of small clumps of dark matter warping the…

It would be really, really exciting if a single observation could completely overturn astrophysicists’ current…

Astronomers have spotted an unusually distant star-forming galaxy, the light of which took a whopping 13 billion…

For the first time in astronomical history, a space-based radio telescope is gathering data from the Moon’s far…

An international team of astronomers has detected a pair of gamma-ray bursts with energies more powerful than…

An experiment in the United Kingdom has failed to find evidence of a particle meant to explain most of the…

Physicists don’t know where most of the universe’s apparent mass has gone, and attempts to find it have so far…

For years, astronomers have struggled to understand the source of fast radio bursts, powerful split-second pulses of…

Scientists have spotted one of the most distant (and therefore the youngest) example of merging galaxies yet…

Scientists have detected radio waves emanating from the space between a pair of galaxy clusters—evidence of…

Using the ALMA observatory, scientists have detected a previously undocumented band of cool gas wrapped around the…