Cosmology

"Hair" is a term among physicists as a stand-in for any other measure needed to describe a black hole other than its mass, its angular momentum and its electric charge

Observations show two planets circling their star's equator at a 45-degree angle

From the agencies to Antarctica, work picked up anew

Although the two bodies have significant differences, researchers point to surprising similarities in their topographical evolution

Hubble observations of the smallest galaxies known help explain why so few of them exist

A computer simulation of the universe shows that it may be filled with “defects in spacetime”

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to François Englert and Peter Higgs for the theory of how particles acquire mass, requiring the existence of the Higgs Boson, experimentally confirmed to exist in 2012

Interactions of Higgs bosons and anti-Higgs in the early universe may also have caused the observed asymmetry between matter and antimatter

In this excerpt from Five Billion Years of Solitude author Lee Billings chronicles the pioneering scientists who have led the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence in their quest to answer the haunting question: Is humanity alone in the universe?

Mysterious dark matter is responsible for our existence in the Milky Way galaxy, as revealed in this video for a new show at New York City’s Hayden Planetarium

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope team is considering a new observing strategy that would focus on the center of the galaxy

New observations suggest the small world's air never vanishes