Lyndie Chiou

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics.

Perhaps dark matter is made of an entirely different kind of particle than the ones physicists have been searching for. New experiments are springing up to look for these ultra-lightweight phantoms.

Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places where it’s hard to vote.

Mathematicians are working to fully explain unusual behaviors uncovered using artificial intelligence.

By measuring the universe’s emptiest spaces, scientists can study how matter clumps together and how fast it flies apart.

There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants.

Type Ia supernovas are astronomers’ best tools for measuring cosmic distances. In a first, researchers have managed to re-create one on a supercomputer, giving a boost to a leading hypothesis for how they form.

A growing catalog of huge but dim galaxies such as Dragonfly 44 is forcing astronomers to invent new theories of galactic evolution.