Seeking endorsements for her new book, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein finds herself staring at fundamental questions of space, time ...

Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein showed they are interlinked in what is known as ...

Astronomers use simulations to discover how globular clusters form and reveal a new type of star system near the Milky Way.

The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

The College of Natural Sciences welcomed more than a dozen new tenured and tenure-track faculty members in 2025.

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the existence of galaxies beyond th ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it ...