There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends." ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

According to modern cosmology, one day all the stars will burn out and the Universe will be full of dead planets, black holes ...

The scientific study of cosmology, the field that focuses on the origins and evolution of the universe, is barely a century old. It has already been transformed more than once by new ideas, new ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

This is the light echo of the Big Bang, the first light that freely moved through the universe. This relic is crucial to our ...

The UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy has established a research program in modern cosmology – an entirely new field of research at the university. The new program builds upon the ...

Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called 'impossible early galaxy problem.

“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 ...