For a generation, cosmologists have treated dark energy as a fixed backdrop, a steady pressure stretching space faster and ...

To complicate matters further, some of the anti-Zionism I encountered came from Jewish scholars. Naively, I assumed they ...

Astronomers have finally confirmed a long‑suspected cosmic oddity, a massive clump of gas and dark matter that looks like a ...

One of Morecambe’s quieter enigmas in Morecambe’s charity shops, the shelves follow a familiar script: dog-eared paperbacks, ...

If the human race comes to an end relatively shortly, then we have been born at a fairly typical time in history of humanity. On the other hand, if humanity lasts for much longer and trillions of ...

Consider what others have done with far less material.

Until religion can solve the problem of evil without resorting to circular belief, it cannot claim victory over reason ...

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The shape of the Universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every ...

The early universe appears to be littered with enormous star-like balls of gas powered by a black hole at their core, a finding that has taken astronomers by surprise and might solve one of the ...

Barbour, Hawking, Misner and others have argued that time cannot play an essential role in the formulation of a quantum theory of cosmology. Here we present three challenges to their arguments, taken ...

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 ...