The UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy has established a research program in modern cosmology – an entirely new field of research at the university. The new program builds upon the ...

A closer look at the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model, its core components, supporting evidence, and why new observations are ...

Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has culminated in a groundbreaking new image that reveals the most detailed map of dark matter distributed across a quarter of the entire sky, ...

Dark energy, the invisible something that is supposed to make up about 70% of the universe, may not be needed to explain why space keeps speeding up. An international team based at the Center of ...

Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt by Anna Von Mertens. MIT Press, 2024 ($34.95) Fans of Hidden Figures and The Glass Universe will appreciate Anna Von Mertens ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This essay is adapted from the book Cosmology ...

Astrophysicist Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, who with his wife and two other colleagues determined how elements are synthesized in the nuclear reactors of stars, died Jan. 26 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in ...

New insights into Milky Way satellite galaxies raise awkward questions for cosmologists. As modern cosmologists rely more and more on the ominous “dark matter” to explain otherwise inexplicable ...

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