The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends." ...

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

By Ben BRAKO For centuries, African spiritual philosophy was corralled at the margins of global thought—reduced by colonial ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

The universe’s expansion rate was supposed to be a solved problem, yet the latest high precision map of the early cosmos has ...

It’s a powerful technique, but small uncertainties at each step can add up, something critics argue may be behind the Hubble ...

The late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's lessons for an age of masked ICE raids, antisemitism, and dehumanization.

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

Astronomers have discovered one of the largest rotating structures ever seen in the universe: a razor-thin line of galaxies ...