Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He had ...

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

George Fitzgerald Smoot III, whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe ...

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

Alvarez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his work on elementary particle physics. His work had an ...

Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best one," Professor Gupta said. "Maybe the universe’s biggest secrets are just ...

But what have been the most significant physics prizes of the 21st century? I’m including 2000 as part of this century (ignoring pedants who say it didn’t start till 1 January 2001 ). During that time ...

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who is famous for his research into the origins of the universe and for finding the ...

Scientists have long embraced the fact that forces beyond sight govern the universe. Dark matter, they think, holds galaxies together with extra gravity, and dark energy drives the universe’s ...

Physicists predict the universe’s expansion will reverse, ending in a dramatic big crunch about 20 billion years from now.

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

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...