The UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy has established a research program in modern cosmology – an entirely new field of research at the university. The new program builds upon the ...

The Physics Division at the National Science Foundation is seeking qualified applicants to fill the position of Program Director for Theoretical Physics in the areas of Elementary Particle Physics and ...

For centuries, cartographers have sought to map Earth’s land masses and seas to better understand the world and their place in it. Now, astrophysicists have taken a major step toward doing the same ...

The crisis in cosmology has actually gotten worse, which means we may be onto something! The good news is also that the crisis in cosmology has actually gotten worse, which means we may be onto ...

Right now, it looks like cosmology is at a tipping point. Will the James Webb telescope resolve the issue by revealing new physics? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Most of the universe is missing. Only 5% of it is normal matter, which makes up all the people, planets and stars we can see; the other 95% consists of mysterious dark matter and dark energy.

Andreea Font receives funding from Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a ...

About a year after launching into orbit around the Sun, the James Webb Space Telescope began imaging an abundance of little red dots, which scientists called, um, “little red dots.” I know—not only is ...

Dr. Frank is an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester. Dr. Gleiser is a theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College. Not long after the James Webb Space Telescope began beaming back from outer ...

A giant arc of galaxies appears to stretch across more than 3 billion light-years in the distant universe. If the arc turns out to be real, it would challenge a bedrock assumption of cosmology: that ...