cosmology

For almost three decades, dark energy has been the standard explanation for why the universe is expanding at…

A study of 104,688 quasars found a pattern consistent with supermassive black holes recoiling after mergers.Larger estimated velocity…

Over the 2 billion years that Lumina simulates, it captures the emergence of two huge transformations in cosmic…

MEGATRON simulations offer a possible explanation for the similar iron content of many of the smallest galaxies.Radiation delayed…

Galaxy evolution in an EAGLE simulation. Credit: The EAGLE project/Durham University Galaxy simulations suggest the Milky Way offers…

Roman is designed to return about 1.4 terabytes of data daily, with observations becoming publicly available after processing.A…

Flury, S. R. et al. The low-redshift Lyman continuum survey. I. New, diverse local Lyman continuum emitters. Astrophys.…

A theoretical calculation estimates roughly 6 × 10⁸⁰ bits of information in selected ordinary-matter particles across the observable…

A theoretical study predicts five-dimensional primordial black holes within a model containing a hidden extra spatial dimension.Some modeled…

In 2023, the KM3NeT neutrino detector picked up an impossibly powerful signal—tens of thousands of times more energetic…

Liam DesrePhoto credit: youthscience.ca In the grand quest to understand why the universe is expanding faster and faster,…

The DESI Collaboration is a winner of the 2026 Gizmodo Science Fair for greatly advancing our understanding of…

Einstein’s equations, if applied more carefully, may hold the answer to why the universe is expanding faster, without any need for mysterious dark energy, say scientists