The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters has provided the most precise distance to the Coma Cluster of galaxies yet - and also has deepened a crisis in cosmology. The problem is ...

Everybody enjoys a good mystery. And boy, right now there’s a doozie of a mystery in cosmology. Cosmology is the “big picture” of astronomy. Cosmology attempts to understand the creation on the ...

You say in your article that modern, scientific cosmology didn’t get started until roughly the 1920s. What happened then? It’s not as though nothing happened earlier. People have been speculating ...

University physics and astronomy programmes are in a period of rapid transition. Shifts in student demographics, technological acceleration, and growing ...

Investigations into the unknowns of space and time -- and abstract questions around early universe cosmology relating to the Big Bang, black holes and universe expansion -- are focal points of ongoing ...

Originally published in England under the title The Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology. Statement of responsibility from jacket. Prehistory -- Ancient Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Greek and ...

The study of symmetries in black hole spacetimes has emerged as a cornerstone for comprehending the underlying dynamics of these enigmatic compact objects. By identifying both explicit and hidden ...

Two Johns Hopkins University research scientists who use the Japanese art of paper folding, known as origami, as a metaphor for understanding the complexity of the cosmos have been named winners of an ...

Travel to incredible destinations and gain a deep insight into what is beyond our planet and our efforts, past, present and future, to explore it. Immerse yourself in jungle life in the search for the ...

It used to be that cosmology was really difficult because the instruments weren’t quite up to the task. Back in the 1930s, Hubble and his colleague Milton Humason struggled for years to collect ...