SCIENCE

Initially, at left, the Universe is filled with neutral, light-blocking matter back before any stars have formed. When stars begin to…

From whatever pre-existing state started it, inflation predicts that a series of independent universes will be spawned as inflation continues, with…

In order to admit the most promising students across all socioeconomic backgrounds, an approach that includes, rather than excludes, standardized testing…

If the light from a parent star can be obscured, such as with a coronagraph or a starshade, the terrestrial planets…

Although we now know that light, as well as all quanta, can be described as both a wave and a particle…

This map shows the median age in every county in the United States. If you were to graph out the median…

While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a…

The galaxy HCM-6A, shown here, is stretched and magnified by the effect of gravitational lensing by the foreground cluster of galaxies…

In the far future, there will be no more matter around black holes, but instead their emitted energy will be dominated…

This timeline of the Universe shows how, from a Planck-scale region of space that possessed an inflationary state, the properties of…