It’s a powerful technique, but small uncertainties at each step can add up, something critics argue may be behind the Hubble ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out ...

"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends." ...

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory of relativity. It was a masterpiece, giving us our modern-day ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

This is the light echo of the Big Bang, the first light that freely moved through the universe. This relic is crucial to our ...

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 ...

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology. JWST’s image of spiral galaxy NGC 628, which is 32 million light-years ...

Thomas Kitching receives funding from the Royal Society, and the Science & Technology Facilities Council. Science is advancing rapidly. We are eradicating diseases, venturing further into space and ...