Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama ...

Physicist Richard Lieu first explored the idea that gravity could exist without mass—now he’s got a new cosmological model ...

A new theory challenges the standard model of cosmology, arguing that dark matter and dark energy are not the forces behind ...

A dazzling galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is forcing cosmologists to reexamine key assumptions about the early universe. The object, JADES-GS-z13-1, appears just 330 ...

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that ...

A paper published in 2024 theorizes that time may have existed before the Big Bang, but we're still not entirely sure.

Not everything we knew about the universe is wrong. But not not everything. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

Data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has now given researchers new detailed images of the universe's earliest ...