Did two physicists just upend decades of cosmology research? A new study claims that the universe isn’t entirely the same no ...
Earlier this year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed observations that mapped 47 million galaxies ...
Gravity, the force that attracts objects toward each other, is currently framed by Albert Einstein's theory of general ...
Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...
Finally, the many billion year time-scale of Hindu cosmology is not the entire history of the universe, but just the day and ...
Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally have an answer, says columnist Leah Crane ...
This video explores one of the hardest questions in cosmology: what, if anything, existed before time began. But the deeper ...
The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last spring, extremely distant yet very bright galaxies immediately ...
“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...
Science is advancing rapidly. We are eradicating diseases, venturing further into space and discovering a growing zoo of subatomic particles. But cosmology – which is trying to understand the ...
An expert shares his personal reminiscences of the evolution of the subject of cosmology over six decades. He tells of the increase in our confidence in the standard model of cosmology to the extent ...