In a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, cosmologists trained an AI ...

A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of how ...

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have added new weight to one of the most perplexing problems in cosmology: the Hubble Tension. This issue, which describes the discrepancy ...

Sound waves 'fossilized' in the arrangements of galaxies across the Universe support the theory that the Milky Way galaxy floats adrift in a giant void in space. If this is the case, we could be ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, but defining the rate of that expansion is challenging. The rate of ...

(via Dr. Becky) This is one of the most fascinating unsolved problems in cosmology, and it almost never gets talked about outside of research papers. It's called the curvature tension, and it links in ...

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A new paper suggests a 2025 study claiming the universe is not expanding, which refuted a previous Novel Proze-winning discovery, is wrong.