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, one day all the stars will burn out and the Universe will be full of dead planets, black holes ...

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.

Lecturer in Astrophysics, Coordinator of Swinburne Astronomy Online, Swinburne University of Technology As 2012 comes to a close and you toast the New Year, be sure to also raise a glass to one Vesto ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stuart Clark's new book sweeps over you like a maelstrom of names, places and ideas. In The Unknown Universe, Clark sets out to describe the state of our knowledge — and lack thereof — about central ...

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 ...