Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.
"The Hubble tension is now a Hubble crisis." The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that ...
Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.
The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not in a special place in the Universe. Us humans are not privileged ...
A "cosmic CT scan" performed by scientists using two very different cosmic surveys has revealed the cosmos is less clumpy and ...
In the history of science few developments have been more important than the advent of the new heliocentric cosmology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Whereas most of the ancient Greeks ...
Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place ...
the standard model of cosmology, or the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model. "This discovery poses a challenge to the LCDM model, as it may struggle to account for the formation of such small ...
Particle cosmology is study of elementary particles and their interactions applied to cosmology. Our research interests focus on quantum field theory and theories beyond the Standard Models in ...