Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy, the cosmic microwave background radiation that was visible only ...

James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. Early Tuesday morning, three physicists—James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz—were rewarded for decades ...

Stuart Clark's new book sweeps over you like a maelstrom of names, places and ideas. In The Unknown Universe, Clark sets out to describe the state of our knowledge — and lack thereof — about central ...

The universe is expanding faster and faster, but not all scientists agree that dark energy is the cause. Perhaps, instead, our universe keeps colliding with and absorbing smaller 'baby universes,' a ...