Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse? What lies beyond the boundary of a black hole? The universe seems to be rotating, and if ...

Aug. 1 is Women Astronomers Day, highlighting the historical achievements of women in astronomy. The designation honors the birthdate, in 1818, of Maria Mitchell, the first American woman astronomer ...

1. How the Moon formed One of the great mysteries of astronomy is our nearest celestial neighbor. Presumably among the first objects in the sky that our ancient ancestors noticed and wondered over is ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to the emergence of stars marks a critical shift known as Cosmic Dawn. Yet, astronomers have struggled to unravel details about the first ...

These knots, made of tangled energy fields, may have briefly dominated the cosmos after the Big Bang and helped create the ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made a significant breakthrough in the field of astronomy by refining the age of the ...

Quasars are supermassive black holes that sit at the center of enormous galaxies, accreting matter. They shine so brightly that they are often referred to as beacons and are among the most-distant ...

Cal Poly Physics Professor Thomas Gutierrez is the principal investigator of a $340,000 National Science Foundation grant involving particle physics. In an underground lab in a mountainous region of ...

Mr. Rovelli is an Italian physicist and the author of the upcoming book “White Holes,” from which this essay is adapted. How do we learn something new, something we do not yet know? One way, of course ...

"It would be amazing if a simple rotation of the universe was the origin of dark energy." What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse?