Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized explosion but a simultaneous ...

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 ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

Cosmologists can now explore data faster than ever before with a new emulator. As astronomers continue to uncover the mysteries of the universe, their work generates increasingly vast and intricate ...

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 ...

A Stony Brook University professor and a trio of grad students took part in a scientific collaboration that produced the clearest, most precise images of the universe’s infancy, including the latest ...

New Haven, Conn. — The 2025 Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize recognizes Ryan Cooke and Max Pettini both for their determination of a key value in the composition of the universe moments after it came ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...