New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

From the point of view of religion what is important here is that all three founders of modern cosmology saw their new vision of the heavens as an offshoot of their theology. Kepler had originally ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

In an ironic turn of scientific history, the cosmological constant that Einstein had rejected became a cornerstone of modern cosmology. In this latest study, a team of researchers from the ...

A new study proposes a way to use weak gravitational lensing data to test the long-held Cosmological Principle of the ...

If scientists confirm an anisotropic expansion, it would challenge the assumption that the universe has no preferred directions.

An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed image ever of a cosmic filament, a vast structure of gas ...

Our primary research interests span a wide range of topics in modern cosmology, from theories of inflation and dark energy, gravitational waves, relativistic predictions of observables, theoretical ...

Their research has brought into question one of the cornerstones of modern cosmology. In a new study, published Dec. 19, 2024 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ...