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

For a long time, scientists have believed that the universe looks the same no matter where you are or which direction you look. This idea, called the Cosmological Principle, is a key assumption in ...

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 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 ...

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

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

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

A looming mystery lies at the heart of modern cosmology, and it has everything to do with the ever-accelerating expansion of the universe. First discovered in 1998 by analyzing distant Type 1a ...

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 ...