For a quarter century, cosmology has rested on a simple but audacious idea: that a fixed “cosmological constant” drives the ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield suggest that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, challenging existing ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say. When you ...

The findings from the University of Sheffield relate to the possible relationship between dark matter, the mysterious, ...

As the youthful universe congealed under the pull of gravity, matter knotted itself into galaxies, galaxy clusters and filaments, weaving a dazzlingly intricate cosmic web. This web’s structure is ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.