Two weeks ago, when Till Sawala heard the news of a peer-reviewed paper that purported to upend our understanding of the ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. In the late 1990s, two independent teams, the ...

Neutron sources can be directly identified from measured spectra rather than proxies using inference tools adapted from ...

New telescopes are challenging the idea that the cosmic web fades into a uniform, directionless distribution. It may be ...

Scientific ideas sometimes have to wait decades for technology to catch up. Statistical algorithms developed at the Yerevan ...

It's a discovery that could overturn our understanding of the cosmos at its most fundamental level: the universe might not be uniform in all directions, even on gigantic scales. Based on data ...

If you imagine the story of the universe as a film endlessly in post-production, cosmologists would be its obsessive editors, constantly tweaking the narrative. The version they are working with is an ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could reshape our understanding of the Big Bang. Instead of relying on ...

For most of modern cosmology, scientists have worked with a surprisingly simple assumption: the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion has remained unchanged throughout cosmic ...

This sketch is of the cosmic microwave background timeline of the universe in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model. The accelerated expansion shown in the last third of the timeline represents the dark ...

The Rediff Special / Carl Sagan 'Hindu cosmology's time-scale for the universe is in consonance with modern science' Carl ...

A few years ago, the internet caught alight with talk of a “vibe shift” in what counts as cool. Skinny jeans and minimalism were out; baggy trousers and messy hair were in. Cue a minor panic for ...