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

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of international researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of gigantic ...

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

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

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 ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

By Ben BRAKO For centuries, African spiritual philosophy was corralled at the margins of global thought—reduced by colonial ...

UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is the new IRL’s deputy director. Visiting scholar Cédric Cerna will serve as ...

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