For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency in the ...

The Shaw Prize in Astronomy is awarded in equal shares to John Richard Bond Professor, Canadian Institute for Theoreti ...

Part of the reason scientists have settled on the Big Bang theory as the best explanation of how the Universe came into being ...

In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was ...

Over the decades, physicists have compiled various lists of the most important fundamental constants. Generally, there are a ...

This modern era of high precision stems in part from studies of the oldest light accessible to us—the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The CMB is the big bang’s afterglow from circa 380,000 ...

Richard Bond, a University Professor in the David A. Dunlap department of astronomy and astrophysics and the department of ...

Freedman and colleagues have recently published a new analysis incorporating both Hubble and JWST data, and once again, they ...

For 75 years, scientists have consistently pondered the Fermi Paradox, which asks why we don’t hear from other civilizations ...

Efstathiou is professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Bond is a professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and university professor at the ...