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 ...

Today the PASC17 Conference announced that this year’s plenary presentation will be entitled “Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe with Supercomputers.” The plenary presentation will be given by ...

Early in the morning on Tuesday, Oct. 8, Princeton physicist James Peebles got a call from Sweden. His first thought was, “When you receive a phone call that early in the morning, it’s usually ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three people—physical cosmologist James Peebles, physicist Michel Mayor and astronomer Didier Queloz—for discoveries in physical cosmology and for the ...

It is Nobel prize week and four physicists have received a telephone call from Stockholm. In this installment of the Physics World Weekly podcast we chat about James Peebles, who shared one half of ...

Why couldn't the boundary of the observable universe be where antimatter and matter collide, creating "more" universe? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering ...

Inflationary cosmology has been developed over the last twenty years to remedy serious shortcomings in the standard hot big bang model of the universe. This textbook, first published in 2005, explains ...

This year's Nobel Prize in physics was awarded today to John Mather and George Smoot, two leaders of the Cosmic Microwave Background Explorer (COBE) satellite science team. David Wilkinson of ...

The three men will share a 9-million kronor ($918,000) award. Three scientists have won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on understanding "Earth's place in the cosmos" and the evolution ...