The visionary physicist who gave us a new way to view the cosmos
Earlier this year, Tony Tyson got a sneak preview of the first images taken by the brand-new Vera…
This Telescope’s Final Data Release Just Killed 30 Cosmological Theories
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile spent nearly two decades studying how the universe began, what it’s…
After nearly a century of looking, researchers may have finally detected dark matter
For nearly a century, something unseen has tugged at the cosmos. In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky…
Our Solar System Is Moving Faster Than It’s Supposed To, Study Suggests
It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with…
Our solar system is moving through space 3x faster than expected
The universe is supposed to look the same no matter where you stand. That idea, known as the…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
This black hole released energy equivalent to 10,000 billion suns
Black holes are certainly one of the most powerful structures in the universe. And if you still had…
Scientists Develop “Effort.jl” Emulator That Can Simulate the Entire Universe—on Just a Laptop
For most of human history, mapping the universe meant staring up at the night sky. Today, it means…
Our universe may have been born inside a black hole, study finds
The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes…
The most violent event in the universe could be visible from Earth in less than 10 years
The universe is a vast place in which many cosmic events occur regularly. And in less than ten…
Two new black hole collisions confirm Einstein’s theory with record precision
For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal…
Neutrinos may hold the key to solving the universe’s biggest secrets
Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through everything, including…