Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

For the first time, researchers have recreated the universe's first ever molecules by mimicking the conditions of the early universe. The findings shake up our understanding of the origin of stars in ...

A new study introduces a radical change in the understanding of the first moments after the Big Bang, without relying on the speculative assumptions that physicists have traditionally assumed.

NASA's new SPHEREx observatory has released its first all-sky cosmic map. This map uses 102 infrared wavelengths to reveal the universe in unprecedented detail. Scientists can now study cosmic ...

Explore how Newton’s discoveries in physics, mathematics, and optics reshaped science and continue to influence our understanding of the universe.

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, physics and astronomy Prof. Vicky Kalogera brought together a team of ...

Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. The force is enormous — it makes up nearly 70% of ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

A team of scientists proposes a new model of cosmic inflation that reveals how gravity and quantum mechanics may be sufficient to explain how the structure of the cosmos came into being. A team of ...