For more than a decade, cosmology has been stuck with a puzzling contradiction. Two ...

This course, delivered in English, provides a complete and updated view of the main fields of modern astrophysics, including astronomical detectors and techniques, black holes and neutron stars, ...

New research suggests dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the universe’s expansion, may not be constant after all. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago have ...

A single equation found on a Babylonian clay tablet, written nearly four millennia ago, reveals a mathematical insight eerily similar to theories used in modern cosmology. Trump rants at America’s ...

“You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success,” 19th-century Baptist preacher Russell Conwell is said to have proclaimed, “but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own ...

In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that distant galaxies are moving away from us, implying that the universe is expanding. This observation laid the foundation for the Big Bang theory, which states that ...

A groundbreaking new dataset containing information on 18.7 million celestial objects—the largest ever assembled—is now accessible to researchers, paving the way toward solving some of the universe’s ...

A recent study hints that the universe’s current model of cosmology, known as ΛCDM, might be facing inconsistencies. If confirmed, these results would introduce a need to fundamentally alter our ...