For a quarter century, cosmology has rested on a simple but audacious idea: that a fixed “cosmological constant” drives the ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of ...

New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

To astronomers in the 1990s, these three facts were self-evident: The universe is expanding; all the matter in the universe is gravitationally attracting all the other matter in the universe; ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield suggest that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, challenging existing ...

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In this video, Arvin Ash explores the history of the universe from the Big Bang to modern cosmology. Key discoveries include: - **1920s**: Edwin Hubble discovered galaxies outside the Milky Way and ...

Two UBC researchers have been awarded the 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their work as part of a 2003 NASA mission that pinpointed the age of the Universe at 13.75 billion years. UBC Physics and ...

Unafraid to question both scripture and science, Ramakrishnan brings an iconoclast's clarity and a seeker's humility to his work. Brahman: All This Whatsoever That Moves is the culmination of his ...

About a year after launching into orbit around the Sun, the James Webb Space Telescope began imaging an abundance of little red dots, which scientists called, um, “little red dots.” I know—not only is ...

While headlines around the world claimed that ancient galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope were "breaking" our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much more nuanced — and much ...