An international team, including researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, has reached a major milestone in ...

Three decades of supernova observations have been rebuilt into one dataset, revealing another challenge to constant dark ...

The universe is still speeding up, scientists say, keeping dark energy and its mysterious role in cosmic expansion firmly in play. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab / ...

After a multi-decade-year mission to understand the nature of the universe, a telescope perched in the mountain plateaus of northern Chile said goodbye in 2022. Now, its final data release is ...

Let’s say you have a baby. Maybe you really do, maybe you don’t. But Dan Scolnic, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, does have one, and perhaps that's why a hypothetical baby helps him ...

The most comprehensive catalog of exploding white dwarf stars ever assembled has revealed new clues about dark energy, the ...

It’s supposed to be the “gold standard” of evidence supporting the standard model of cosmology – including dark matter, dark energy and the exponential expansion after the big bang known as inflation.

To me cosmology was never really about the equations. It's the oldest thing we do, this itch to look up and try to explain the whole business, and it shows up in myth and in a whole constellation of ...

About a year after launching into orbit around the Sun, the James Webb Space Telescope began imaging an abundance of little red dots, which scientists called, um, “little red dots.” I know—not only is ...

Cosmology seeks to describe the large-scale origin, content and fate of the Universe, while extragalactic astronomy extends these questions into the formation, evolution and interactions of galaxies ...

An expert shares his personal reminiscences of the evolution of the subject of cosmology over six decades. He tells of the increase in our confidence in the standard model of cosmology to the extent ...