Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...

Observations of the thermal energy in a baby galaxy cluster 12.4 billion light years away suggest much more energetic early ...

By studying ripples in space-time, physicists are testing wheather dark energy might stem from hidden dimensions, elusive ...

Anaxagoras, a visionary Greek philosopher, foresaw concepts of expanding universe and multiple worlds centuries before modern science.

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To astronomers in the 1990s, these three facts were self-evident: The universe is expanding; all the matter in the universe is gravitationally attracting all the other matter in the universe; ...

Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...