Cosmology

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

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

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

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

The hunt for these mysterious “missing-matter” substances has now taken a leap forward, thanks to two new lab experiments

A hundred years on, and the implications of Einstein's general relativity still surprise and delight

Research reveals today's produced energy is only about half of what it was 2 billion years ago

Private funding for the Arecibo Observatory—the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world—may be a poison pill