To read the second of three question-and-answer interviews with the author of this Predictive Cosmology theory, please go to the January 9, 2010 iTWire article " Q&A Interview, Part 2: Predictive ...

The Big Bang is often presented as if science has completely solved the beginning of the universe: everything started in one ...

Do we need a new cosmology? Scientists have spent 60 years developing the standard model of cosmology. It’s the idea that our universe began in a Big Bang. It explains the expansion of the universe, ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has rested on a simple but audacious idea: that a fixed “cosmological constant” drives the universe’s accelerating expansion. Now a new wave of data is forcing ...

RUDN University astrophysicists have gathered the most important discoveries of modern cosmology from 1917 to our time. The collected data became an introduction to Philosophical Transactions of the ...

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 ...

Timeline of our universe, according to the standard model. This diagram represents 13.77 billion years of time. The far left depicts the earliest moment we can now probe, when a period of “inflation” ...

What are the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that seem to account for so much of our universe? Why is the universe expanding? For the past 30 years, most cosmologists have looked to the ...

DESI is installed on a telescope in Arizona, where it records spectra of 5000 celestial objects simultaneously. The new results come from measurements of nearly 15 million quasars and galaxies, but ...

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 ...