There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his ...

If findings are correct, astronomer Tomonori Totani told Newsweek, this may finally solve "the greatest mystery in cosmology.

For decades, dark matter has been the universe’s most stubborn mystery, silently shaping galaxies while refusing to show ...

UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is ...

This is the light echo of the Big Bang, the first light that freely moved through the universe. This relic is crucial to our ...

Japanese astrophysicist Tomonori Totani claims gamma rays from the Milky Way may be the first direct evidence of dark matter, ...

For centuries, cartographers have sought to map Earth’s land masses and seas to better understand the world and their place in it. Now, astrophysicists have taken a major step toward doing the same ...

The solar system is moving through space over three times as fast as estimated, calling into question our best model of the ...

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology. JWST’s image of spiral galaxy NGC 628, which is 32 million light-years ...

Thomas Kitching receives funding from the Royal Society, and the Science & Technology Facilities Council. Science is advancing rapidly. We are eradicating diseases, venturing further into space and ...