He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

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

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

Baggott’s conclusion is balanced: “The arguments in favour of new physics and the demands to rethink cosmology should not detract from the extraordinary achievements of astronomy and cosmology over ...

In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Yang Zhenning was born in 1922 in Hefei, Anhui Province, China. His early education took place in China, where he developed a keen interest in physics. After completing his undergraduate studies, he ...

Researchers analyzing pulsar data have found tantalizing hints of ultra-slow gravitational waves. A team from Hirosaki ...

A single equation found on a Babylonian clay tablet, written nearly four millennia ago, reveals a mathematical insight eerily ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...