Hahrie Han, Tommy Orange and Matt Black are among the 22 fellows selected this year by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur ...

G eorge Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation” in 2006, has died at home at the age ...

The Arkansas Valley Fair in nearby Rocky Ford (Colorado’s oldest continuous fair) brings agricultural traditions to life each August, with everything from livestock competitions to rodeo events to pie ...

GEORGE FITZGERALD SMOOT III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe ...

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

We’ve grown up with the idea that the universe will expand forever, meaning the "cosmological constant" is positive. What if ...

The UC Davis department of physics and astronomy, together with the College of Letters and Science, will host a free reception and public lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 4 from 6 ...

Where does the matter in our universe come from? It's a question that has puzzled scientists for generations, and one that ...