We obviously can’t put the universe on a giant set of scales, but scientists have found astonishingly clever ways to […] ...

A new look at radio maps of the sky shows a pronounced tilt, called a dipole, that astronomers are still unable to explain ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between ...

A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real ...

He was a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big ...

In a recent breakthrough, the XRISM mission has uncovered a puzzling cosmic phenomenon—a slow, dense wind emanating from the neutron star GX13+1. This unexpected discovery, detailed in a study ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

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

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

GEORGE FITZGERALD SMOOT III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe ...