Cosmology

The next week or two Uranus, Mercury, Jupiter and Mars are making notable appearances in the night sky

Astronomers have detected faint light that dates from shortly after the big bang

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass

Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald share the 2015 award for the discovery that neutrino particles can change “flavor”—and, unexpectedly, have mass

Physicist Neil Turok will describe his vision for simpler theories in a public lecture

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery that one kind of neutrino can change into another, which shows that neutrinos have mass

The evening of September 27 will be the fourth time in the last 17 months that the moon becomes immersed in the Earth's shadow

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s incongruous chemical composition and shape raise questions about the origin of our solar system

The LHC and the Belle experiment have found particle decay patterns that violate the Standard Model of particle physics, confirming earlier observations at the BaBar facility

Einstein’s assertion that God does not play dice with the universe has been misinterpreted

New study shows the sun may have snatched Sedna, Biden and other objects away from a neighbor

The mystery of black holes and information loss is too thorny for a quick resolution