A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology. JWST’s image of spiral galaxy NGC 628, which is 32 million light-years ...

Thomas Kitching receives funding from the Royal Society, and the Science & Technology Facilities Council. Science is advancing rapidly. We are eradicating diseases, venturing further into space and ...

Cosmology is a branch of astronomy involving the science of the universe's origin. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Cosmology is a ...

The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last spring, extremely distant yet very bright galaxies immediately ...

Andreea Font receives funding from Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a ...

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory of relativity. It was a masterpiece, giving us our modern-day ...

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Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask a Spaceman" and "Space Radio," and author of "How to Die in Space." Sutter contributed this article to ...

"How long until the world hollows me out?" Eunice Turner asks her younger brother Noah in one of her many letters to him — most of them suicide notes. That question lies at the heart of A Cosmology of ...