Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

In 1929, an astronomer named Edwin Hubble stood atop Mount Wilson in California, peering into the night sky. What he s ...

The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

The arrow of time can teach us more about how the universe began – and how it will end, says quantum columnist Karmela ...

The Big Bang may mark an end—not the start—of a previous universe's aeon. Penrose's theory sees the universe as an eternal ...

The study suggested that our universe formed from the collapse of a black hole, inside a bigger parent universe, rather than ...

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage More than 300 top quantum physicists gathered ...

Max Planck is widely considered the father of quantum physics because he introduced the groundbreaking idea that energy comes ...

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang.