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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The IceCube project at the geographic South Pole melted eighty-six holes over 1.5 miles deep in the Antarctic icecap to construct an enormous astronomical observatory. The experiment recently ...

(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 ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - When Bharat Ratra arrived at Kansas State University in 1996, he wasn’t aiming to win any prizes. But, with excellent work comes recognition. Ratra recently earned that ...

Discussions are underway to select the next speaker for the Elon Musk Public Lecture series, which was last held at Penn in 2023. The Musk lectures began in 2009 following an endowment by 1997 College ...