Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

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

The universe’s expansion rate was supposed to be a solved problem, yet the latest high precision map of the early cosmos has ...

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

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

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 ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

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 radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

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 ...