The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out dozens of models that attempted to solve it. Reading time 3 minutes The ...

Physicists are scrambling to understand why dark energy is weakening. In a surprising twist, we must now reconsider the ...

For decades, the cosmological field was working under the assumption that, after the universe began in a hot dense soup of energy that expanded in the Big Bang, it continued to expand, forming the ...

Tiny highly uniform magnetic fields are known to pervade the universe, influencing various cosmological processes. To date, however, the physical mechanisms underpinning the generation of these fields ...

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How do you measure dark matter, which by definition emits no light? Watch how it impacts things that you can see — specifically, how light from distant galaxies bends around it, as predicted by ...

Licia Verde receives funding from the AEI (Spanish State Research Agency) project number PID2022-141125NB-I00, and has previously received funding from the European Research Council. Licia Verde is a ...

Scientists have reconstructed gravity to find a more robust way of understanding the cosmos. Scientists from around the world have reconstructed the laws of gravity, to help get a more precise picture ...