The universe is expanding, but astronomers still cannot agree on exactly how fast. That mismatch, known as the Hubble tension ...

The UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy has established a research program in modern cosmology – an entirely new field of research at the university. The new program builds upon the ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Dark energy has been modern physics’ most successful placeholder, a theoretical force invented to ...

According to modern cosmology, most galaxies are surrounded by faint, extended halos of light called LSB structures. These ...

Modern cosmology is taking us on the most exciting voyage in human history. Far from diminishing our wonder at the Universe, this modern story of Genesis surpasses even our wildest speculations.

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 and ...

Cosmologists face a dilemma. The rise of quantitative cosmology, exemplified by the release of new data in March on the cosmic microwave background from the WMAP satellite (see pp16-19; print version ...

A mere two years after completing his daring General Theory of Relativity in 1915 — where gravity is interpreted as resulting from the curvature of space and time around a massive body — Albert ...

Excerpted from "The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos." It originally appeared as a speech given by Steinhardt at an event in 2002. If you were to ...

You will remember that before religion took centre stage people whispered that phenomena they could not explain were the influence of dark forces and evil spirits. These mysterious goblins were hidden ...