A cosmologist and data scientist with a literary bent, Valeria Pettorino thinks multiple angles and diverse points of view are needed to unriddle the nature of dark matter and dark energy. In 2004, ...

According to most models of how the universe works, matter and antimatter should have completely annihilated each other after the Big Bang. Yet, here we are. Scientists Found a Cosmic Loophole that ...

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been reshaping numerous fields, and now they are making their mark in cosmology. Integrating AI algorithms and data analysis ...

James Peebles won this year's Nobel prize in physics for helping transform the field of cosmology into a respected science, but if there's one term he hates to hear, it's "Big Bang Theory." The ...

In the late 1990s, two teams of astronomers were out to settle a score. Cosmologists had been at odds for over a decade in their quest to measure the total amount of matter and energy in the universe.

This article originally appeared on Undark. Every community guards a creation story, a theory of cosmic origins. In much of sub-Saharan West Africa, for the past few thousand years, itinerant ...

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TORONTO, ON – NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has transformed the science of cosmology by establishing the age, geometry and contents of the universe with astonishing precision – an ...

We could be living inside a black hole. This head-spinning idea is one cosmologist's conclusion based on a modification of Einstein's equations of general relativity ...

Andrei Linde freely admits that when he began developing theories of cosmic inflation in the early 1980s, the concept seemed like pure science fiction. But, as experimental data has verified his work, ...

If the components of the universe were poured into a “cosmic cocktail,” scientists could easily predict how the drink would look and taste, yet they would have no idea what’s in it. Such is the state ...