A Montana State University astrophysicist and strong gravity expert has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s most ...

A student-led experiment has shown that the search for dark matter doesn’t always require massive infrastructure.

The team successfully built the largest, highest-resolution 3D map of the cosmos ever constructed. The completed map charts ...

A scientific overview of a speculative cosmology idea and what current physics says about black holes, spacetime, and the ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, has finished its planned 3D map of the universe — but the work is far from over. Carnegie Mellon University researchers are already pushing the ...

J. Colin Hill, an associate professor of physics, was awarded a New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Breakthrough Prize ...

Boston scientists honored at the Breakthrough Prize for gene editing, muons, Pantheon+ and new symmetry theory.

Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere, threaded through the Milky Way and outnumbering ordinary matter by a wide margin.

Boston researchers Stuart Orkin and Lee Roberts were honored with one of the six Breakthrough Prizes for achievements in life ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed the most comprehensive 3D map of the universe ever created, ...

All the tools for measuring it in the local, recent Universe give fairly consistent results, around 72 to 74 kilometers per ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by the discovery of extremely large black holes in the early universe. Some of these black ...