Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

In a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, cosmologists trained an AI ...

For most of modern cosmology, scientists have worked with a surprisingly simple assumption: the mysterious force driving the ...

The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last spring, extremely distant yet very bright galaxies immediately ...

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that teleology is a remnant of antiquated ways of thinking about causation, and ...

For decades, one of the biggest questions in cosmology has remained frustratingly out of reach: what, if anything, existed ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing question. Now we may finally ...

“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...

An expert shares his personal reminiscences of the evolution of the subject of cosmology over six decades. He tells of the increase in our confidence in the standard model of cosmology to the extent ...