If we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the cosmos. This is known as the cosmological principle.
An artist's impression of the size and location of the Big Ring (blue) and Giant Arc (red) in the sky. (University of Central ...
When Andreas Albrecht was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he was looking for an advisor in particle physics ...
Earlier this year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed observations that mapped 47 million galaxies ...
Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...
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 ...
This video explores one of the hardest questions in cosmology: what, if anything, existed before time began. But the deeper ...
Science is advancing rapidly. We are eradicating diseases, venturing further into space and discovering a growing zoo of subatomic particles. But cosmology – which is trying to understand 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 ...