Could the universe be spinning like a giant top? This idea, proposed by physicist Nikodem Poplawski, opens surprising ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

The Giant Magellan Telescope team explains how the observatory will help solve the mysteries of the cosmos including the search for life.

Dr Victoria Fawcett has been named as the winner of the 2025 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship by the Royal Astronomical ...

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our ...

Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy, a mysterious force in the universe, is changing over time. This would completely re-write our understanding ...

Recent results of research by scientists using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) spectroscope to study dark energy indicate that this mysterious power can change, which challenges ...

A virtual “flight” through a portion of the largest 3D map of the universe to date, using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).