There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of "memory cells" that record the whole history of the universe ...

A controversial theory suggests the observable universe is the result of matter rebounding after the collapse of a black hole ...

New findings from the University of Bonn challenge the assumptions of the standard cosmological model. The faint "afterglow" ...

Combining the way that massive galaxies and galaxy clusters bend space and magnify our view of the distant universe with ...

Cosmology is the study of the universe; its birth ... evidence of a past major merger, reshaping our understanding of Perseus’s dynamical history. The microlensing of strongly lensed ...

An international team of physicists, led by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga from the University of Portsmouth's Institute of ...

The Hubble constant, a set number that connects a galaxy’s speed to its distance from Earth and tells us how fast the ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the Universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

Crucially, this bounce occurs entirely within the framework of general relativity, which applies on large scales such as ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

By doing the work that led to the discovery of dark energy, Riess had helped add the final piece to what has since come to be called the “standard model of cosmology.” Indeed, few people ...

This model does more than fix technical problems with standard cosmology. It could also shed new light on other deep mysteries in our understanding of the early universe – such as the origin of ...