Gravity, as most people understand it, is the familiar force that pulls a falling apple toward Earth. But for astronomers and ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has completed its five-year mission to build the most comprehensive 3D map of the ...

Joseph Shavit The absence of a signal could itself be a signal. This is the idea behind a new study published in the Journal ...

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For the last several years, cosmology – the study of the universe as a whole – has been facing a major tension. The two main ...

Scientists have tested gravity across some of the largest structures in the universe and ...

New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could ...

Primordial magnetic fields may help explain why measurements of the universe’s expansion do not agree. Scientists have long known that the universe is expanding, yet there is still no agreement on how ...

“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 ...

Johns Hopkins University theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski is one of three physicists to be awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their contributions to methods essential for studying the ...

A new program about cosmology will debut at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium during April.