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

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein's theory of relativity shows they are interlinked in a ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

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

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

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

A new paper published in Physical Review D in September, by Frieman and Anowar Shajib, a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Einstein Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics, combines current data from a ...

A $4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation enables a team of scholars from USC, the University of California, ...

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

Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, highlights the existential risks of technology misuse and interconnectedness, including ...