Johns Hopkins University theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski is one of three physicists to be awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their contributions to methods essential for studying the ...

Hang Su ’23 has always been fascinated by physics and how it helps explain the natural world. Eager to learn as much as she can about how the world works, she hopes to make her own meaningful impact ...

Imagine you wanted to know everything you could about the Universe. You'd want to find the answers to questions of all types, such as: What is the Universe made of? How big is the entire Universe? How ...

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

Professor Stephen Hawking's final theory on the origin of the universe, which he worked on in collaboration with Professor Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven, has been published this week in the Journal of ...

New insights into Milky Way satellite galaxies raise awkward questions for cosmologists. As modern cosmologists rely more and more on the ominous “dark matter” to explain otherwise inexplicable ...

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 ...

Have you ever fancied the idea that somewhere out there, there's another you? That in a faraway mirrored universe, there's another version of yourself. The mirror universe is usually an interest in ...

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I've long been fascinated by the fundamental mystery of our universe's origin. In my work, I explore an alternative to the ...

James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. Early Tuesday morning, three physicists—James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz—were rewarded for decades ...