We introduce notable papers on cosmology, physics, mathematics, philosophy, and the history of science published in primary ...

Ekpyrotic CosmologyThe multiverse in Episode 4 was an extension of the idea that bubbles continue to be born from regions where inflation never ends. As long as rapid expansion is placed at the center ...

Tens of terabytes of data a night. Up to 10 million alerts flagging changes in the sky. 20 billion galaxies and 20 billion ...

Let’s say you have a baby. Maybe you really do, maybe you don’t. But Dan Scolnic, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, does have one, and perhaps that's why a hypothetical baby helps him ...

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 ...

In a continuous pursuit to understand the fundamental laws that govern the universe, researchers have ventured deep into the realms of string theory, loop quantum gravity, and quantum geometry. These ...

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that teleology is a remnant of antiquated ways of thinking about causation, and ...

To me cosmology was never really about the equations. It's the oldest thing we do, this itch to look up and try to explain the whole business, and it shows up in myth and in a whole constellation of ...

It’s supposed to be the “gold standard” of evidence supporting the standard model of cosmology – including dark matter, dark energy and the exponential expansion after the big bang known as inflation.

Cosmology is the study of the universe; its birth, evolution, and ultimate fate. This includes further developing and refining the prevailing model, the Big Bang theory, investigating the universe’s ...

An expert shares his personal reminiscences of the evolution of the subject of cosmology over six decades. He tells of the increase in our confidence in the standard model of cosmology to the extent ...

Nova MCU film adapts the 2006 Annihilation comics event as a Phase 7 project with writer Michael Waldron attached; insider reports name Annihilus as the villain. The source comic was built on verified ...