Sep 4, 2006 · Cosmologists study the universe as a whole: its birth, growth, shape, size and eventual fate. The vast scale of the universe became clear in the 1920s when Edwin Hubble proved …

Mar 4, 2025 · A strange new conception of how time warps across the universe does away with cosmology's most mysterious entity, dark energy

Jan 22, 2024 · JIM PEEBLES is widely known as the architect of modern cosmology – and its nice-guy-in-chief. Awarding his half-share of the 2019 Nobel prize for physics, the committee said he “took on …

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there was nobody around to hear them anyway. But Jim Baggott says from the ...

Dec 17, 2025 · Columnist and Space Cosmology’s Great Debate began a century ago – and is still going Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but ...

Apr 9, 2024 · The expansion rate of the universe, measured by the Hubble constant, has been one of the most controversial numbers in cosmology for years, and we seem at last to be close to nailing it …

May 2, 2025 · ‘Shocking’ results from a major astronomical study have raised doubts about the standard model of cosmology, forcing scientists to consider new ways of understanding dark energy and gravity

Nov 20, 2024 · Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been proven right on the largest scale yet. An analysis of millions of galaxies shows that the way they have evolved and clustered over ...

Cosmology grapples with the nature of the entire universe, seeking to understand its origins and its ultimate fate. Cosmologists study the mysteries of dark matter, dark energy and even the nature ...

Sep 21, 2016 · Space Reality guide: The essential laws of cosmology Our expanding universe began in a big bang 13.8 billion years ago. But what underlying laws of nature shape our vision of time and …