Cosmologists are quietly confronting a possibility that would have sounded absurd a generation ago: the standard picture of a ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about.

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Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the universe is expanding faster and faster remains one of the most intriguing ...

The latest results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, which involves UCL researchers, combined four methods for ...

The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding? Astronomers have tried two main methods to figure it out, but their numbers don’t ...

In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.

The universe isn’t just growing—it’s speeding up as it does. That discovery stunned scientists, upending long-held ideas about gravity and motion in space. This rapid expansion wasn’t predicted by ...

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Our latest and best ever map of the early universe is five times more detailed than anything we have had before, but while it precisely backs up the leading model of the universe, it is also a ...