A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...

Cosmology’s neat story of a universe driven apart by a simple, invisible “cosmic fuel” is starting to fray. A growing body of ...

An artist's illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope. Something is awry in our expanding cosmos. Nearly a century ago, the astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the balloon-like inflation of the ...

Astronomers have proposed a new way to solve the so-called “Hubble tension,” but the approach ultimately raises more questions than it answers. By way of background, cosmologists are in a bit of a ...

“You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success,” 19th-century Baptist preacher Russell Conwell is said to have proclaimed, “but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own ...

For decades, cosmologists have relied on models that neatly explain the universe — until one element kept refusing to fall in ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is based in Chile. It sits atop Cerro Pachón mountain. Atop a mountain in Chile, where the skies seem bigger and darker, sits the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a project of ...

David Weinberg receives funding from the National Science Foundation and NASA that supports his dark energy research. Ashley Ross receives funding from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to support his ...

The clearest pictures yet of the newborn cosmos strengthen the prevailing model of the universe but deepen a mystery about its expansion rate. Measurements of this rate, known as the Hubble constant, ...

Cosmology scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have made a rare discovery: a cluster of galaxies that span most of the observable universe. This cluster — the Carousel Lens — is ...

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Since the beginning of human existence, people have looked into the night sky and wondered how the universe began. Cosmologists using the UK’s Memory Intensive DiRAC HPC ...