It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Moments before the Big 12 championship game between No. 4 Texas Tech and No. 11 BYU, commissioner Brett Yormark made his last ...

Keck Observatory reports that spectroscopy from its Keck Cosmic Web Imager, combined with data from NASA’s James Webb and ...

Garrapata State Park sits quietly along Highway 1 between Carmel and Big Sur, offering a respite for souls weary of crowded beaches and overrun hiking trails. In a state where finding solitude often ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

Astronomers analyzing Sloan Digital Sky Survey data stumbled onto something they weren’t expecting: a structure stretching ...

New polarization maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope align with Planck’s results and confirm the lower early-universe ...