About two decades ago, in 1998, a supernova observation began to slowly reveal the contours of the enigmatic universe. The ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

While you may believe that it's hard to learn anything new about a structure that has been around for thousands of years, ...

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory of relativity. It was a masterpiece, giving us our modern-day ...

Confucian cosmology was never about superstition. Its real power lay in de-centering authority – binding rulers to a higher standard they couldn’t control. The statue at Fan Zhongyan’s tomb site in ...

Enrique Gaztanaga receives funding from the Spanish Plan Nacional (PGC2018-102021-B-100) and Maria de Maeztu (CEX2020-001058-M) grants. Enrique Gaztanaga is also a Professor at the Institute of Space ...

ABSTRACT: Our idea for black holes is using Torsion to form a cosmological constant. Planck sized black holes allow for a spin density term canceling Torsion. Also, a solution to the early universe ...

ABSTRACT: Without stating postulates or making any hypothesis, the quantization of the vector potential amplitude at a single photon level yields naturally the electromagnetic field ground state ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say. When you ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial cosmological soup. Over the next 14 billion years, these ancient photons—the ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with ...

Andreea Font receives funding from Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a ...