A new study challenges the traditional interpretation of the cosmic microwave background, this fossil light from the Big Bang ...

Dark matter may have started as light-like particles that abruptly became heavy—a cosmic twist rooted in spin and ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

but it could also have been produced by an ultra-powerful cosmic ray interacting with the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

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 ...

Multiple space agencies will send missions to the moon this decade and the next, with plans to establish infrastructure that ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its ...