Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could ...

A new program about cosmology will debut at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium during April.

Scientists have proposed a bold new explanation for how the universe began, suggesting the Big Bang’s rapid expansion may have emerged naturally from the laws of quantum gravity. Credit: Shutterstock ...

Cosmology has come a long way since Edwin Hubble determined the rate of cosmic expansion around 90 years ago. Since the 1990s, multiple independent techniques have converged on values much lower than ...

Johns Hopkins University theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski is one of three physicists to be awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their contributions to methods essential for studying 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 ...

The solar system is moving through space over three times as fast as estimated, calling into question our best model of the ...

“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 ...