Astronomers have uncovered two extraordinary cosmic structures that are challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of ...

RUDN University astrophysicists have gathered the most important discoveries of modern cosmology from 1917 to our time. The collected data became an introduction to Philosophical Transactions of the ...

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 ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the existence of galaxies beyond the Milky Way. This discovery, aided by telescopes ...

A single equation found on a Babylonian clay tablet, written nearly four millennia ago, reveals a mathematical insight eerily ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

Rajendra Gupta proposed a cosmological model suggesting a universe significantly older (more than 10 billion years) than the ΛCDM model, primarily to account for the unexpectedly large size of early ...

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 ...

In the history of science few developments have been more important than the advent of the new heliocentric cosmology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Whereas most of the ancient Greeks and ...