For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it ...

For centuries, cartographers have sought to map Earth’s land masses and seas to better understand the world and their place in it. Now, astrophysicists have taken a major step toward doing the same ...

Everyone, today I have some exciting news to share! Recently, astronomers have discovered a superstructure that is 10 billion ...

Ferreira and Alexander Roskill from the University of Oxford's Department of Astrophysics have recently proposed a cold dark matter model that is based on very few parameters yet can accurately ...

The Hubble tension just got tenser — with new measurements revealing that the universe is expanding faster than our current understanding of physics can explain. Over the past decade, cosmology has ...

Do scientists need to re-examine the basic model of the universe? Using new measurements of cosmic distances, astronomers have refined their calculation of the Hubble Constant, a number that describes ...

Physical cosmology, as a branch of astrophysics, is the study of the large-scale structure of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution. Cosmology ...

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Thomas Kitching receives funding from the Royal Society, and the Science & Technology Facilities Council. Science is advancing rapidly. We are eradicating diseases, venturing further into space and ...