According to current understanding, the universe is expanding—and is doing so at an accelerating rate. This is believed to be ...

Einstein’s first leap In 1917, two years after completing his theory of general relativity, Albert Einstein built the first ...

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of structures. Now, new research led by Joshua Kim and Mathew Madhavacheril at the ...

Last May, Stephen Hawking gave a talk at Google's Zeitgeist Conference in which he declared philosophy to be dead. In his book The Grand Design, Hawking went even further. "How can we understand the ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out dozens of models that attempted to solve it. Reading time 3 minutes The ...

Enis Doko’s Islam and Modern Cosmology is an ambitious and intellectually serious contribution to a genre too often dominated ...

Cosmological expansion is widely treated as a proven fact. It is not proven. For nearly a century, cosmology has told a simple story about a universe that began in a hot, dense state and has been ...

IN a recent article on cosmology and electrodynamics, Hoyle and Narlikar 1 have argued that the direct action electrodynamics of Wheeler and Feynman 2 may be used as evidence that the steady state ...