Modern cosmology suggests that the universe has no single spatial centre or edge. The Big Bang did not occur at one ...

For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current theories, matter and its counterpart, ...

Some astronomers think one set of measurements or the other will turn out to be wrong. Others believe that the tension is a hint of deeper problems with the scientific description of the universe, ...

An international research collaboration has used advanced computer simulations to investigate how faint radio signals from ...

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success,” 19th-century Baptist preacher Russell Conwell is said to have ...

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the universe: it's just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number ...

Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly ...

I was reminded recently that we seem to be trapped in a Catch-22 Universe. What makes it a Catch-22 is that no one is qualified to penetrate the mystery of the cosmos without skill in advanced ...

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...

Faint radio signals from the early Universe, soon detectable by Moon missions, may reveal how dark matter shaped gas cooling ...