Scientists have been using complicated, hypothetical particles to explain the Big Bang, but this theory posits that a simpler ...
A new space telescope will help scientists look back in time at the origin of our universe and the galaxies and planetary systems that have populated it ever since. The mission will further our ...
While working at Berkeley, he collaborated with John Mather on a NASA research study probing the origins of the universe. The two physicists won a Nobel Prize.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after the Big Bang that initiated the universe and to ...
The vast emptiness of space is growing emptier one star at a time. That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun. In a new ...
A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma ...
Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He had ...
Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...
Smoot is best known for his Nobel prize winning research that confirmed the Big Bang Theory, leading a team that developed ...