Using a novel technique that examines the motion of two nearby galaxy groups within their surrounding cosmic flow, an international team led by David Benisty of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the Universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that analyzes the motion of two ...

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Levon Pogosian receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The work described in this article was enabled in part by support provided by the BC DRI Group and ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure of the entire universe. Scientists are getting close to figuring out how.

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every ...

In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was the first recorded event of gravitational waves. And it helped confirm ...

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The popular consensus among scientists is that the universe will continue expanding until the bitter end. A team of researchers is now pumping the brakes on that idea. A new theory promises to ...

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a Nobel Prize. By Katrina Miller George F. Smoot, an American physicist and ...