Dark matter makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe. It neither emits nor absorbs light, making it invisible ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

The Simons Observatory is one of the most ambitious cosmic observatories on Earth, dedicated to studying the cosmic microwave ...

Cosmologists face a dilemma. The rise of quantitative cosmology, exemplified by the release of new data in March on the cosmic microwave background from the WMAP satellite (see pp16-19; print version ...

A theory that unites quantum mechanics and general relativity claims that there was no first moment in time, but it still agrees with the predictions of classical cosmology. It's in the stars One of ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

Stuart Clark's new book sweeps over you like a maelstrom of names, places and ideas. In The Unknown Universe, Clark sets out to describe the state of our knowledge — and lack thereof — about central ...

The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology. Within the standard framework of ...

Discoveries on the grandest scale in the cosmos, as well as findings a bit closer to home, share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Cosmologist James Peebles of Princeton University won half the ...