For a quarter century, cosmology has rested on a simple but audacious idea: that a fixed “cosmological constant” drives the ...

The latest wave of cosmology results suggests the universe might not be the smooth, predictable machine textbooks once ...

The past, present and future of the universe is about to be revealed in unprecedented detail by Britain’s biggest academic supercomputer called the Cosmology Machine, based at the University of Durham ...

Early 20th-century cosmology transitioned from galactic astronomy with Edwin Hubble's discovery of external galaxies and the universe's expansion, which Albert Einstein's general relativity later ...

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; ...

New research suggests the universe may be lopsided. Cosmic microwave background and galaxy data hint at directional differences, challenging cosmology’s assumption of uniformity and standard ...

The FLAMINGO super simulation maps the universe from its earliest moments but finds galaxies cluster less than cosmological models predict, deepening a long-standing puzzle.

A new study questions dark energy's role in the universe's acceleration, suggesting it may be weakening instead.

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

On October 8 (local time), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics: James Peebles, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, USA, for his ...