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

As evidenced by the diagrams that make up the Tree of Knowledge System, I think it is valuable that we teach individuals broad frames to think about the Universe and our place in it. That was why I ...

Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba present computer simulations that capture the complex dynamics of elusive neutrinos left over from the Big Bang Current simulations of cosmic structure ...

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

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

New observations suggest our estimates of the cosmic dipole effect are actually in line with the large scale structure of the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The universe began with an unimaginably hot, dense state. Inflation rapidly expanded the universe's size. Before inflation, the universe existed in a period called the GUT era where forces were ...

Buried deep below the American Midwest, a new kind of observatory is taking shape that aims to watch some of the most elusive particles in the universe as they stream straight through Earth. The Deep ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.