Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

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

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from the early cosmos.

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

Researchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out we still have a massive problem. This new value continues to strengthen the ...

According to the standard model of cosmology, the universe should be the same everywhere and look the same in every direction. A little caveat on this last part is that it’s the same in every ...

The past, present and future of the universe is about to be revealed in unprecedented detail by Britain’s biggest academic supercomputer called the Cosmology Machine, based at the University of Durham ...

The UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy has established a research program in modern cosmology – an entirely new field of research at the university. The new program builds upon 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 ...

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

The age of the Universe has been a subject of debate for many years now. In an attempt to assess the value of the Universe, astronomers have agreed that it was formed through the Big Bang theory ...

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