In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used by astronomers and physicists ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Doctor in Physics, specialist in active galaxies and supermassive black holes, she is a researcher at the Center for ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

For two decades, scientists believed the cosmological constant, known as λ (lambda), was positive. That meant the Universe ...