Two weeks ago, when Till Sawala heard the news of a peer-reviewed paper that purported to upend our understanding of the universe, he immediately suspected that something was off. Then again, the ...

If, as novelist-philosopher Samuel Butler wrote in 1878, “a hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg”, then a galaxy may only be a black hole’s way of making another black hole. To put it ...

How did the universe begin? How will it end? What happened before the Big Bang? On this BSc (Hons) Physics with Astrophysics course, you’ll investigate some of the biggest questions human beings have ...

David H. DeVorkin is emeritus senior curator in the history of astronomy and the space sciences at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. What is the Universe?

Last year, cosmologists working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) reported hints that the mysterious dark energy thought to be driving the expansion of the universe may be weakening ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out dozens of models that attempted to solve it. Reading time 3 minutes The ...

To study the origins of our universe is to struggle with profound chicken-or-egg questions. We know the Big Bang happened. Cosmologists can see its afterglow in the sky. But no one knows whether the ...

Cosmology of Kyoto is a first-person horror exploration game where players navigate a deeply haunted yet surprisingly educational terrain. Originally released in 1993, Cosmology of Kyoto and its ...

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters has provided the most precise distance to the Coma Cluster of galaxies yet — and also has deepened a crisis in cosmology. The problem is ...