A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the Universe.

Unexpected epochs of stillness that punctuate the cosmic timeline could offer a natural explanation for dark matter and many ...

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

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

Is the universe infinite, Aristotle asked in 350 BCE, “or is this an impossibility? The decision … is … all-important to our search for the truth.” The Greek ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

The vast majority of cosmologists believe all of these phenomena can be explained through the presence of dark matter, a hypothetical form of matter that is massive, electrically neutral and hardly, ...

Located approximately 27,000 light-years (one light year equals approximately nine trillion kilometres) from Earth — relatively close when it comes to galactic black holes — Sag A* has an estimated ...

If scientists confirm an anisotropic expansion, it would challenge the assumption that the universe has no preferred directions.