Do scientists need to re-examine the basic model of the universe? Using new measurements of cosmic distances, astronomers have refined their calculation of the Hubble Constant, a number that describes ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists, including MIT graduate Andrea Ghez, won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes, the all-consuming monsters that ...

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 ...

Rohan Naidu was at home with his girlfriend when he found the galaxy that nearly broke cosmology. As his algorithm dug through early images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) late one night in ...

Let’s say you have a baby. Maybe you really do, maybe you don’t. But Dan Scolnic, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, does have one, and perhaps that's why a hypothetical baby helps him ...

The taxi ride across Cambridge normally takes just 15 minutes. But on 10 March, astronomer John Kovac had a momentous secret to share and wanted to avoid being spotted by reporters or scientific ...

The crisis in cosmology has actually gotten worse, which means we may be onto something! The good news is also that the crisis in cosmology has actually gotten worse, which means we may be onto ...