For a quarter century, cosmology has rested on a simple but audacious idea: that a fixed “cosmological constant” drives the ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield suggest that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, challenging existing ...

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of ...

The universe’s accelerating expansion has long puzzled physicists. For decades, dark energy, an unseen force thought to make ...

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Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say. When you ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

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 ...