The new data seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is negative, and that the universe will end in a Big Crunch,” ...

Now, more than 150 years later, a team of Japanese physicists are resurrecting the concept to solve one of cosmology’s longest-standing riddles: Why does the universe teem with matter, but shun ...

The Simons Observatory is one of the most ambitious cosmic observatories on Earth, dedicated to studying the cosmic microwave ...

The century-old mystery of dark matter — the invisible glue thought to hold galaxies together — just got a modern clue.

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

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 ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope is a collaborative project led by Penn and Princeton researchers (Photo Courtesy of ACT Collaboration). The Atacama Cosmology Telescope — a National Science ...

His latest book, Discordance, fits into the class of conventional popular cosmology, in so far that it is an account of how our present understanding of the Universe has emerged. But it is also, with ...