It all started with a big bang has been the commonly accepted origin story of our universe for ... standard observational cosmology collects evidence to track the evolution of the cosmos from ...

Over billions of years, the universe has transformed from a simpler state into an intricate cosmic web, but new research ...

However, to work with final conditions that are not imposed by external agents, we need to move into the realm of quantum cosmology, in which the whole universe is treated as a quantum system.

The universe's largest structure ... Gamma-ray bursts are useful measurement tools in cosmology — with a few caveats. The main one is that it takes the observation of a tremendously large ...

A surprising new discovery has emerged in the study of the universe’s evolution. Scientists, using data from the Atacama ...

However, to work with final conditions that are not imposed by external agents, we need to move into the realm of quantum cosmology ... of the books "Particle or Wave: The evolution of the ...

Cosmology is in for exciting times ... Astronomers use this gravitational lensing to study indistinct epochs in the evolution of the universe. Cosmic-shear surveys help to map the diffusion ...

in the universe also has implications for other aspects of cosmic evolution. "Knowing where the gas is has become one of the most serious limiting factors in trying to get cosmology out of current ...

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it ...

These series of step-like bursts happen so rapidly that they are difficult to observe as these singularities wink in and out ...