UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...

Princeton University physicist Curtis Callan will give a free public lecture on cosmology and particle physics on Monday, April 25, at 7 p.m. at the University Inn and Conference Center, 611 Ocean ...

Scientists have detected an unusual gamma-ray halo around our Milky Way galaxy. This signal, observed by NASA's Fermi telescope, has a specific energy ...

As the Sun and its planets orbit the center of the galaxy, we carve out a path that scientists have previously calculated ...

Astroparticle physics and particle cosmology represent converging disciplines that strive to understand the universe from its largest structures down to its most fundamental constituents. In this ...

Cosmologists face a dilemma. The rise of quantitative cosmology, exemplified by the release of new data in March on the cosmic microwave background from the WMAP satellite (see pp16-19; print version ...

A theory that unites quantum mechanics and general relativity claims that there was no first moment in time, but it still agrees with the predictions of classical cosmology. It's in the stars One of ...

Top cosmologists and particle physicists from around the world will gather at the Granlibakken Resort at Lake Tahoe on Sept. 25-29 for the Cosmo 2006 Conference on Particle Physics and the Early ...