The College of Natural Sciences welcomed more than a dozen new tenured and tenure-track faculty members in 2025.

Understanding the vast structure of the universe, from galaxies to superclusters, requires complex models and immense ...

AI is rewriting the laws of physics, uncovering hidden forces, and reshaping our understanding of the universe. Discover the ...

A strange “Einstein Cross” with an extra, impossible fifth image has revealed the hidden presence of a massive dark matter ...

Mapping the Universe’s vast structure no longer requires endless supercomputer time. Effort.jl brings cosmic modeling to laptops without sacrificing accuracy.

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the universe: it's just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number ...

A $4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation enables a team of scholars from USC, the University of California, ...

A new paper published in Physical Review D in September, by Frieman and Anowar Shajib, a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Einstein Fellow in Astronomy and Astrophysics, combines current data from a ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe's greatest mysteries. The most widely accepted theory currently suggests ...

An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...