The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every ...
The giant confinement building encapsulating the Chornobyl nuclear reactor that exploded nearly 40 years ago is smooth and curved—built with scientific precision. Installed in 2016, the structure was ...
The Oct. 30 incident saw the plane rapidly lose altitude and sent at least 15 to 20 people to the hospital. Getty; Nik Oiko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A space and radiation expert claims a ...
A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation's NoirLab released the picture on Wednesday. The glowing "wings" ...
Douglas Scott is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He collaborated with George Smoot at Berkeley. Joseph Silk is professor of physics at ...
Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed stable, suggesting plasma instabilities aren’t responsible for missing gamma ...
The popular consensus among scientists is that the universe will continue expanding until the bitter end. A team of researchers is now pumping the brakes on that idea. A new theory promises to ...
Very early dark energy (vEDE) may have accelerated the universe’s expansion just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, according to newly published research. This proposed form of dark energy would have ...
The universe is expected to look roughly the same in every direction, but a stubborn and consistent streak pattern identified by astronomers isn’t playing by those rules. A new look at radio maps of ...
An anomaly in the temperature of the universe has long stumped physicists, and a new analysis of data from several radio telescopes has only deepened the mystery of what is causing it. This weird ...
George Smoot, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...
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