On 23 May 2026, a scientific conference of the **World Academy Awards was held in Switzerland and dedicated to the ...

UC Santa Cruz professor shares one of cosmology's highest honors with Alex Filippenko at UC Berkeley and Ken Nomoto at the ...

Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the ...

For centuries, cartographers have sought to map Earth’s land masses and seas to better understand the world and their place in it. Now, astrophysicists have taken a major step toward doing the same ...

The instrument is called DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, and its job is dull in the way that all great ...

The largest-ever survey of physicists from around the world—released today—shows a distinct lack of consensus across many of ...

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 ...

The conclusion of DESI's first survey marks an important milestone for cosmology, which finds itself in a bind for the best reasons.

Physical cosmology, as a branch of astrophysics, is the study of the large-scale structure of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution. Cosmology ...

An expert shares his personal reminiscences of the evolution of the subject of cosmology over six decades. He tells of the increase in our confidence in the standard model of cosmology to the extent ...