Surprisingly, we found that even significantly higher dark energy densities would still be compatible with life, suggesting ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

Machine learning can help tighten constraints on the overarchingFor almost as long as humans have existed, we have been ...

Could the universe be spinning like a giant top? This idea, proposed by physicist Nikodem Poplawski, opens surprising ...

Dark energy: Could the mysterious force we think of as constant actually vary over cosmic time? ,As I finished my Ph.D. in 1992, the universe was full of mystery—we didn't even know exactly what ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

Almost a thousand of the world's top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK's National Astronomy ...

Physicist Jeremy Sakstein has received one of the world’s top science awards for his theoretical work that is reshaping our understanding of ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Clash of Empires, the Dark Knight trades his gothic cape for a feathered headdress and the guttural poetry of Náhuatl.