You’ve looked up at the night sky. Maybe you’ve wondered how much you don’t know. Turns out, the scale of our ignorance about ...
At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.
Nobel physics laureate and former Princeton professor Frank Wilczek GS '74 gave a lecture Thursday night titled "The Universe is a Strange Place," in which he discussed gaps in our understanding of ...
The fate of the cosmos may be a bit different than previously expected. For years, scientists have talked about how the universe is always expanding — constantly moving outward, never stopping.
About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed like a contradiction in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted ...