A striking reality faces modern cosmology: two of the most advanced telescopes ever built now agree on a result that the standard cosmological model cannot explain. Webb’s confirmation of the Hubble ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope ...

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his ...

If so, laws might change when the universe itself changes phase. In the early universe, as temperatures and densities shifted, forces split apart from a unified origin. What we call “laws” may be like ...

Scientists say microscopic wormholes could explain discrepancies in cosmological constants and affect our understanding of ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down.

Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological model. Before anyone starts dusting off their ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

The Franklin Institute announced Nov. 11 that it is awarding the 2026 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, one of the nation’s ...

A century ago, a star in Andromeda named V1 launched a revolution in astronomy, revealing its true immensity and the origin ...

Evidence suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not accelerate. The results imply dark energy is weakening ...

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable ...