Researchers in Germany argue that a modified theory of gravity could explain universal expansion, removing dark energy from ...

When analyzing early universe data, the Standard Model of Cosmology suggests that the universe should be more “clumpy” that ...

The latest generation of astronomy algorithms is not just cataloguing stars and galaxies, it is learning the hidden rules ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has rested on a simple but audacious idea: that a fixed “cosmological constant” drives the ...

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For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

Something appears amiss in cosmology. A tension has arisen from attempts to measure the universe’s current expansion rate, known as the Hubble constant. Large international teams have used two general ...

The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last spring, extremely distant yet very bright galaxies immediately ...

A research team including a UC Riverside astrophysicist and his former graduate student has received the 2025 Buchalter Cosmology Prize for a study that offers new insight into one of the universe’s ...

The universe is expanding much faster than scientists predicted, and nobody knows why. A team of researchers have confirmed this dilemma with data gathered using a new telescope technology that relies ...

When Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui heads to the International Space Station (ISS) next year, he will have two new skincare items in his bag that are especially designed for the rigors of space travel.