A proposed cosmology model argues that the universe may contain ordinary matter alone, without dark matter or dark energy.

Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: if we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the cosmos. This is known as the cosmological ...

The cosmological principle is the foundation of modern cosmology – but its usefulness doesn’t necessarily make it true, says columnist Leah Crane ...

A recent study in the journal Nature carries cosmos-quaking implications for our understanding of the universe—except a new preprint says that it’s wrong ...

It's a discovery that could overturn our understanding of the cosmos at its most fundamental level: the universe might not be uniform in all directions, even on gigantic scales. Based on data from the ...

After a multi-decade-year mission to understand the nature of the universe, a telescope perched in the mountain plateaus of northern Chile said goodbye in 2022. Now, its final data release is ...

Enis Doko’s Islam and Modern Cosmology is an ambitious and intellectually serious contribution to a genre too often dominated ...

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 ...

According to our best understanding, the universe is expanding – and is doing so at an accelerating rate. This is believed to ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are partnering with colleagues at the University of Washington and the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on a new Genesis ...

Finally, the many billion year time-scale of Hindu cosmology is not the entire history of the universe, but just the day and ...

Let’s say you have a baby. Maybe you really do, maybe you don’t. But Dan Scolnic, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, does have one, and perhaps that's why a hypothetical baby helps him ...