The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

You’ve looked up at the night sky. Maybe you’ve wondered how much you don’t know. Turns out, the scale of our ignorance about the cosmos is staggering. Recent findings are challenging what we thought ...

Nobel physics laureate and former Princeton professor Frank Wilczek GS '74 gave a lecture Thursday night titled "The Universe is a Strange Place," in which he discussed gaps in our understanding of ...

An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing nearly 800,000 galaxies stretching back ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In 1935, ...