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

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

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We explore a material more precious than gold that didn’t originate on our planet.

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

The search for a Theory of Everything or Grand Unification Theory is the most ambitious goal in modern physics, aiming to ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

The graceful movements of dancers across the stage to a variety of melodies tell stories of looking skyward. “Cosmos: A ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.