This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later. But some have proposed that it went the other ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

Join the celebration of International Astronomy Day by looking up at the spectacular southern night sky, engaging in exciting ...

Cosmologists can now explore data faster than ever before with a new emulator. As astronomers continue to uncover the mysteries of the universe, their work generates increasingly vast and intricate ...

Off the western coast of Sumatra, the Mentawai Islands rise from the Indian Ocean in a patchwork of emerald forests and ...

A single equation found on a Babylonian clay tablet, written nearly four millennia ago, reveals a mathematical insight eerily ...

George Fitzgerald Smoot III, whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe began with a Big Bang, died on Sept. 18 in Paris.