A series of lectures on Saturday, May 11, will celebrate the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the contributions of Winston Ko, who is retiring in June after 10 years as dean of the ...

Joel Primack, professor of physics at UCSC, and his wife Nancy Abrams gave a series of four public lectures at Yale University in October, and videos of those talks are now available on YouTube. Links ...

Stacy McGaugh, director of the Warner and Swasey Observatory at Case Western Reserve University, will present "Gravity and Cosmology a Century after Einstein" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7, in 152 ...

Something unseen and massive determines the fate of our universe. Dark matter pervades the cosmos and guides the formation of structure. Dark matter is revealed by the way it warps images of ...

(Link) This study reports the results of the first systematic investigation into Astro 101 students' conceptual and reasoning difficulties with cosmology. We developed four surveys with which we ...

Our understanding of the cosmos has come a long way since the early Mesopotamians described a flat, circular Earth embedded in a cosmic ocean. Now scientists build massive telescopes and use highly ...

Charles C. Steidel, the Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, will accept the $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize from the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation ...

Princeton University physicist Curtis Callan will give a free public lecture on cosmology and particle physics on Monday, April 25, at 7 p.m. at the University Inn and Conference Center, 611 Ocean ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Cambridge astrophysicist John D. Barrow will discuss the relationship between science and religion during an April 1 lecture at Purdue University. Barrow's talk, entitled "The ...

The Center for Particle Cosmology and the Department of Physics and Astronomy co-hosted the sixth Elon Musk Public Lecture focusing on "cosmic inflation theory." The event, “Cosmic Inflation: My ...