Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He had ...

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

George Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the ...

George Fitzgerald Smoot III, whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

A surprising new study reveals that the first stars appeared in a pre-heated universe, challenging earlier ideas about early cosmic conditions.

An analysis of the afterglow of the big bang sheds light on how black holes distribute mass in the universe, and why some ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...