One of the most basic and accepted truths about the universe is that it’s pretty much the same everywhere you look. No ...

Dark matter is often portrayed as a cosmic loner, interacting with itself and the rest of the universe only through gravity.

Earlier this year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed observations that mapped 47 million galaxies ...

Did two physicists just upend decades of cosmology research? A new study claims that the universe isn’t entirely the same no ...

Dark matter halos are everywhere in the universe, yet no telescope can see them. These vast, invisible structures surround ...

Kanazawa, Japan - The expansion of the Universe has occupied the minds of astronomers and astrophysicists for decades. Among the cosmological models that have been suggested over the years, Lambda ...

Physicists sometimes come up with crazy stories that sound like science fiction. Some turn out to be true, like how the curvature of space and time described by Einstein was eventually borne out by ...

Cosmological models with varying fundamental constants explore the possibility that quantities traditionally regarded as immutable—such as the speed of light (c), Newton’s gravitational constant (G) ...

Conventional cosmology rests on the assumption of large-scale homogeneity and isotropy as enshrined in the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker framework. Inhomogeneous cosmological models relax this ...

It's hard to get a sense of the scale of the universe from our little corner of it, but scientists realized decades back that the universe is expanding. This naturally led to questions about the ...