Scientific ideas sometimes have to wait decades for technology to catch up. Statistical algorithms developed at the Yerevan ...

Neutron sources can be directly identified from measured spectra rather than proxies using inference tools adapted from ...

One of the most basic and accepted truths about the universe is that it’s pretty much the same everywhere you look. In other ...

New telescopes are challenging the idea that the cosmic web fades into a uniform, directionless distribution. It may be ...

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a ...

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 ...

An artist's impression of the size and location of the Big Ring (blue) and Giant Arc (red) in the sky. (University of Central ...

For most of modern cosmology, scientists have worked with a surprisingly simple assumption: the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion has remained unchanged throughout cosmic ...

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

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could reshape our understanding of the Big Bang. Instead of relying on ...

When Andreas Albrecht was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he was looking for an advisor in particle physics ...