Cyclic cosmology, or the big bounce, is the idea that the universe will eventually crunch back together and then go through ...

The conclusion of DESI's first survey marks an important milestone for cosmology, which finds itself in a bind for the best ...

"The Story of Everything" documentary argues scientific discoveries about the universe, DNA and fine-tuning point to the ...

A squad of new AI algorithms called GAME could help astrophysicists take a more accurate reading of the universe’s behavior, ...

Cosmic viewer The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile was used by the team to observe gravitational interactions between ...

By studying galaxy clusters separated by hundreds of millions of light-years, Penn physicist Patricio Gallardo and ...

J. Colin Hill, an associate professor of physics, was awarded a New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Breakthrough Prize ...

Benjamin Wandelt, a pioneer at the intersection of cosmology, statistics, and artificial intelligence, is transforming how we extract fundamental physics from astronomical data. Driven by a deep ...

The nature of black holes has long been shrouded in mystery, but some astronomers believe the answers are a lot closer to home than expected. A fringe astronomical theory known as "black hole ...

This sketch is of the cosmic microwave background timeline of the universe in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model. The accelerated expansion shown in the last third of the timeline represents the dark ...