The search for the universe’s center starts with a simple intuition: if everything exploded outward in the Big Bang, there must be a point it all came from. Modern cosmology turns that intuition ...

Is the universe’s expansion the same everywhere? New research suggests it’s not—which could have huge implications for our understanding of the cosmos. Scientists led by Konstantinos Migkas at the ...

“The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility,” explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and lead author of ...

Recent discoveries in cosmology have left scientists scratching their heads, as they challenge our fundamental understanding ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. One of the fundamental ideas of cosmology is that everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances. A new study ...

A study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the assumption of cosmic homogeneity and isotropy, known as the Cosmological Principle, by ...

Those looking forward to a day when science's Grand Unifying Theory of Everything could be worn on a t-shirt may have to wait a little longer as astrophysicists continue to find hints that one of the ...

T.P. Walker, G. Steigman, D.N. Schramm, K.A. Olive, H.S. Kang, "Primordial nucleosynthesis redux," The Astrophysical Journal, 376:393, 1991. Terry Walker (Ohio State ...

SES CEO Steve Collar and John Finney, Isotropic Systems CEO, with the terminal designed for O3b mPOWER at the Satellite 2020 conference in Washington. Credit: Isotropic WASHINGTON – Isotropic Systems ...

No matter where we look, the same rules apply everywhere in space: countless calculations of astrophysics are based on this basic principle. A recent study, however, has thrown this principle into ...