A new study proposes a way to use weak gravitational lensing data to test the long-held Cosmological Principle of the ...

A study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the assumption ...

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility," explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western ...

Astronomers have discovered what is believed to be the largest structure in the universe, more than 1.4 billion light-years across and containing seventy galactic superclusters. Our solar system is a ...

The idea that the universe is homogenous and looks the same in every direction is built into the core of cosmology in the form of the Cosmological Principle. When we actually observe the universe ...