A new study challenges the traditional interpretation of the cosmic microwave background, this fossil light from the Big Bang ...

Team led by UChicago scientist Wendy Freedman using James Webb Space Telescope finds no evidence of tension in Hubble ...

Part of the reason scientists have settled on the Big Bang theory as the best explanation of how the Universe came into being ...

Freedman and colleagues have recently published a new analysis incorporating both Hubble and JWST data, and once again, they ...

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

Such a mission could let researchers peer through all the light there is, all the way back to the universe’s very first light ...

Dark matter may have started as light-like particles that abruptly became heavy—a cosmic twist rooted in spin and ...

Renowned astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar questioned the Big Bang theory, believing the universe evolved slowly over ...

Tuesday, 27 May 2025. At today's press conference in Hong Kong, The Shaw Prize Foundation announced the Shaw Laureates for ...

Dartmouth researchers propose a novel theory suggesting dark matter originated from high-energy, massless particles in the ...