Larry Mantle talks with Caltech cosmologist Chuck Steidel about his work in astronomy and about winning the prestigious award. Steidel's expertise is cosmology, a field to which he has made numerous ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Caltech president and pioneering physicist Thomas Rosenbaum, an expert in the promising field of quantum physics, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang in April for ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Astronomers have used fast radio bursts (FRBs)— brief, bright radio signals from distant galaxies ...
A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) on record. Using FRBs as a guide, astronomers at the Center ...
A still image from the 3D animation created from data collected by the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (Caltech/R. Hurt) (CN) — Outer space may seem dark and impossibly vast, a mostly empty place punctuated ...
Sometime around 400 million years after the birth of our universe, the first stars began to form. The universe’s so-called dark ages came to an end and a new light-filled era began. More and more ...
Amidst the celebrations for a 20th century icon in the world of astronomy, one of today's most important leaders will be honored with the prestigious 2010 Gruber Cosmology Prize. Professor Charles C.