A team of cosmologists in China has introduced a mathematical framework that investigates two of the deepest mysteries in cosmology at the same time. Publishing their research in The Astrophysical ...

Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a ...

On a mountaintop in Arizona, a telescope with five thousand robotic fingers spent three years staring at fourteen million galaxies. Each night the robots reset themselves and pointed (with a precision ...

"This could be the most interesting discovery in cosmology since that of dark energy itself." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

In the Big Bend region, a portal to the early universe is enabled by the largest dark-sky reserve on Earth. The Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas, was used to ...

A massive cosmic milestone has just been reached: scientists have completed the largest high-resolution 3D map of the universe ever created. Built using data from over 47 million galaxies and quasars, ...

In a significant milestone, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its 3D map of the Universe—the highest resolution of any such map yet achieved—on schedule and with more data ...