It's a discovery that could overturn our understanding of the cosmos at its most fundamental level: the universe might not be uniform in all directions, even on gigantic scales. Based on data ...

A few years ago, the internet caught alight with talk of a “vibe shift” in what counts as cool. Skinny jeans and minimalism were out; baggy trousers and messy hair were in. Cue a minor panic for ...

Earlier this year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed observations that mapped 47 million galaxies ...

A team of astrophysicists has just published in Nature a finding that calls into question one of the pillars of modern ...

Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Different techniques for measuring the Hubble constant stubbornly disagree ...

Physicists may have a brand-new way to measure the expansion rate of the universe — one of the biggest outstanding mysteries in cosmology — using space-time ripples predicted by Einstein. A new study ...

The Rediff Special / Carl Sagan 'Hindu cosmology's time-scale for the universe is in consonance with modern science' Carl ...

Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest mysteries.

In one of the most memorable interviews of my career thus far, I was at my desk, head in my hands, talking on the phone to a physicist about extra dimensions. I was trying to understand what it means ...

In the recent decade, progress in black hole (BH) physics has been driven by landmark experimental achievements — from the first observation of ...