The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

The Tian Ma Radio Telescope (TMRT) is the largest fully steerable radio telescope in Asia. It has a primary reflector of 65-m in diameter with a shaped Cassegrain configuration and is mainly used for ...

Could the universe be spinning like a giant top? This idea, proposed by physicist Nikodem Poplawski, opens surprising ...

The slower growth of gravitational wells and the accelerating expansion might share the same underlying cause.” In so many ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

For the first time, researchers have seen how light behaves during a mysterious phenomenon called 'imaginary time'.

From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of modern astronomical thought ...

A numerical method is described for the solution of the electromagnetic fields within an arbitrary dielectric scatterer of the order of one wavelength in diameter. The method treats the irradiation of ...

The birth of a new star seen in 1054, bright enough to dazzle humanity and visible for 20 days. An incredible cosmic event ...

They were also not the first missions to carry a message intended for extraterrestrial beings should they reach interstellar ...

Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the ...

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...