Cosmology

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too

The most anticipated particle physics result of recent years is here—but the real news came one week before: the “muon g–2 anomaly” might have never existed

Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the National Science Foundation

A new generation of telescopes could peer back to the earliest epochs of the universe

A new study suggests the universe's end could occur much sooner than previously thought. But don't worry, that ultimate cosmic conclusion would still be in the unimaginably distant future

Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes, and trying to define them is difficult

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, then the cosmos is far stranger than most physicists had supposed

In just the first 259 days of data collection, KATRIN, a beta-decay-based detector in Germany, has set the smallest upper limit yet on the mass of the neutrino—the universe’s lightest massive particle

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang

After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his legacy and the future of physics

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that is, for all the evidence to the contrary

A long-simmering disagreement over the universe’s present-day expansion rate shows no signs of resolution, leaving experts increasingly vexed