Cosmology’s neat story of a universe driven apart by a simple, invisible “cosmic fuel” is starting to fray. A growing body of ...

Cosmologists are quietly confronting a possibility that would have sounded absurd a generation ago: the standard picture of a ...

Astronomers have proposed a new way to solve the so-called “Hubble tension,” but the approach ultimately raises more questions than it answers. By way of background, cosmologists are in a bit of a ...

An artist's illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope. Something is awry in our expanding cosmos. Nearly a century ago, the astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the balloon-like inflation of the ...

Instead of a single Big Bang that brought the universe into existence billions of years ago, cosmologists are starting to suspect there may have been a second transformative event that could explain ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A photograph of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile overlaid with a figure from its final ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is based in Chile. It sits atop Cerro Pachón mountain. Atop a mountain in Chile, where the skies seem bigger and darker, sits the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a project of ...

As I finished my PhD in 1992, the universe was full of mystery – we didn’t even know exactly what it is made of. One could argue that cosmologists had made little progress in our understanding of ...

David Weinberg receives funding from the National Science Foundation and NASA that supports his dark energy research. Ashley Ross receives funding from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to support his ...

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Since the beginning of human existence, people have looked into the night sky and wondered how the universe began. Cosmologists using the UK’s Memory Intensive DiRAC HPC ...