A recent study in the journal Nature carries cosmos-quaking implications for our understanding of the universe—except a new ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic voids—vast regions mostly free of matter that have opened between dense threads of material that ...

Cosmology in Chinese Civilization officially opened to the public at Anhui Museum and will run until October 20. Drawing on Anhui’s abundant ancient astronomical relics and its distinctive strengths ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Physicists may have a brand-new way to measure the expansion rate of the universe — one of the biggest outstanding mysteries in cosmology — using space-time ripples predicted by Einstein. A new study ...