Could you imagine if pagers made a comeback? Sure, your smartphone would still be your notepad-flashlight-camera-personal assistant-MP3 player-wallet-social media browser. But imagine if pagers made ...

Cosmology is the study of the universe; its birth, evolution, and ultimate fate. This includes further developing and refining the prevailing model, the Big Bang theory, investigating the universe’s ...

The Big Bang is often presented as if science has completely solved the beginning of the universe: everything started in one ...

After a multi-decade-year mission to understand the nature of the universe, a telescope perched in the mountain plateaus of northern Chile said goodbye in 2022. Now, its final data release is ...

For centuries, cartographers have sought to map Earth’s land masses and seas to better understand the world and their place in it. Now, astrophysicists have taken a major step toward doing the same ...

High-energy neutrinos from the vicinity of tidal disruption eventsPaper:High-energy neutrinos from shocked circumnuclear ...

Let’s say you have a baby. Maybe you really do, maybe you don’t. But Dan Scolnic, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, does have one, and perhaps that's why a hypothetical baby helps him ...

Where on earth did our "mind" come from?Of course, it did not suddenly arrive from outside the universe. Our minds, too, were ...

It’s supposed to be the “gold standard” of evidence supporting the standard model of cosmology – including dark matter, dark energy and the exponential expansion after the big bang known as inflation.

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that teleology is a remnant of antiquated ways of thinking about causation, and ...

RUDN University astrophysicists have gathered the most important discoveries of modern cosmology from 1917 to our time. The collected data became an introduction to Philosophical Transactions of the ...

The Universe between recombination (redshift z ≈ 1,000 or 400,000 years after the Big Bang) and the later formation of the first generation of stars at z≈ 30 to 12 (~100 to 300 million years after the ...