Dr Shyam Balaji, researcher in astroparticle physics and cosmology at King’s College London, told the BBC that “current ...

Dark matter is one of the most debated and intriguing missing puzzle pieces of modern physics – a mysterious form of energy ...

By looking at light from distant exploding stars called supernovas, in 1998 astronomers discovered the universe isn't just ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds ...

“Ulysses and the Sirens,” John William Waterhouse, 1891. Credit: Public Domain Greek mythology came to life on canvas through numerous vibrant artworks, many of which have transcended into ...

This notion of mediocrity has been baked into cosmology, in the form of the “cosmological principle.” Its gist is that the universe is basically the same everywhere we look—homogenized like ...

The cosmos, they concluded, is exploding. The discovery rocked cosmology. It implied that the universe would probably experience a long cold death as its components raced inexorably away from each ...