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 ...

This is the light echo of the Big Bang, the first light that freely moved through the universe. This relic is crucial to our ...

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 ...

If findings are correct, astronomer Tomonori Totani told Newsweek, this may finally solve "the greatest mystery in cosmology.

UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is ...

The solar system is moving through space over three times as fast as estimated, calling into question our best model of the ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

What is the actual speed and direction of our solar system as it moves through the cosmos, and how does this compare to ...

It used to be that cosmology was really difficult because the instruments weren’t quite up to the task. Back in the 1930s, Hubble and his colleague Milton Humason struggled for years to collect ...