A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the universe survived its violent beginnings. The findings could reveal why ...

Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing ...

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

Columbia professors contributed to new research that seeks to understand an anomaly that has puzzled particle physics for ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make ...

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted worldwide by ...