Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: if we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the cosmos. This is known as the cosmological ...

According to our best understanding, the universe is expanding – and is doing so at an accelerating rate. This is believed to ...

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

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are partnering with colleagues at the University of Washington and the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on a new Genesis ...

After a multi-decade-year mission to understand the nature of the universe, a telescope perched in the mountain plateaus of northern Chile said goodbye in 2022. Now, its final data release is ...

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 from the ...

Enis Doko’s Islam and Modern Cosmology is an ambitious and intellectually serious contribution to a genre too often dominated ...

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that teleology is a remnant of antiquated ways of thinking about causation, and ...

Taking place from July 27 to August 1, VSOA 10 features lectures delivered by distinguished experts in the field, including ...

Neutron sources can be directly identified from measured spectra rather than proxies using inference tools adapted from cosmology, according to a University of Michigan Engineering study published in ...

Did The universe really begin with a bang, a bounce? The theory that the universe is both possibly having endured a sudden contraction and then bounced into the expanding universe we know today is not ...