Unexpected epochs of stillness that punctuate the cosmic timeline could offer a natural explanation for dark matter and many ...
Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.
Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...
these objects represented some of the earliest light ever glimpsed by humanity—originating from between 600 million and 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. There was just one problem ...
"The Hubble tension is now a Hubble crisis." The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million light-years closer than it should ...
Credit: Deanne Fitzmaurice/National Geographic Image Collection/Alamy Our universe began with a bang—a big bang. The explosion stretched the very fabric of spacetime, sending superheated matter ...
Penzias and Wilson discover Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, supporting the Big Bang theory. Fr. Hincks now uses ACT ...
More about cosmology A cosmic 'CT scan' shows the universe ... making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang ...