He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a Nobel Prize. By Katrina Miller George F. Smoot, an American physicist and ...

In this video, we explore the origins of the first atom, tracing back to the big bang, where immense energy condensed to form atoms. Key concepts include: - The uncertainty surrounding events before ...

And while he hasn’t had a solo film since 2008, the Hulk continues to be an essential hero who helps protect the world from dangerous threats. The Hulk has a plethora of interesting and powerful ...

It may sound unbelievable, but new research suggests that instead of being featureless, dark matter could actually behave like a cosmic superfluid, forming swirling vortex lines and stable rotating ...

The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology. Within the standard framework of non-collisional cold dark matter (CDM), various models are considered: WIMPs (Weakly ...

Even as race-conscious cultural programming is under attack, this San Francisco museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an ambitious show exploring Blackness and the cosmos.

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

A 1943 wooden mobile by Alexander Calder has been given an estimate of $15 million to $20 million, the highest for a work by the artist.

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

Since 1991, UChicago’s Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics has connected students from Chicago Public Schools with world-class astronomers and physicists ...

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