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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The researchers recorded a small number of unexplained signals suspected to be lightweight dark matter. A cutting-edge ...