The cosmological principle is the foundation of modern cosmology – but its usefulness doesn’t necessarily make it true, says columnist Leah Crane ...

Cosmology seeks to describe the large-scale origin, content and fate of the Universe, while extragalactic astronomy extends these questions into the formation, evolution and interactions of galaxies ...

For centuries, cartographers have sought to map Earth’s land masses and seas to better understand the world and their place in it. Now, astrophysicists have taken a major step toward doing the same ...

A proposed cosmology model argues that the universe may contain ordinary matter alone, without dark matter or dark energy.

暗物质（dark matter）通常被描述为只对引力起反应的隐形物质。但科学家正探索一种更复杂的可能性：暗物质粒子之间可能还通过一种自身的隐藏力相互作用。近日发表在《宇宙学与宇宙粒子物理学杂志》（Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, JCAP）的一项新研究考察了如果暗物质受到额外吸引力作用会产生什么后果。研究得到的结论令人意外：尽管该吸引力 ...

Let’s say you have a baby. Maybe you really do, maybe you don’t. But Dan Scolnic, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, does have one, and perhaps that's why a hypothetical baby helps him ...

It’s supposed to be the “gold standard” of evidence supporting the standard model of cosmology – including dark matter, dark energy and the exponential expansion after the big bang known as inflation.

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that teleology is a remnant of antiquated ways of thinking about causation, and ...

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 first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...

An expert shares his personal reminiscences of the evolution of the subject of cosmology over six decades. He tells of the increase in our confidence in the standard model of cosmology to the extent ...

Confucian cosmology was never about superstition. Its real power lay in de-centering authority – binding rulers to a higher standard they couldn’t control. The statue at Fan Zhongyan’s tomb site in ...