Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama ...

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that ...

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

A dazzling galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is forcing cosmologists to reexamine key assumptions ...

A new theory challenges the standard model of cosmology, arguing that dark matter and dark energy are not the forces behind cosmic expansion.

Not everything we knew about the universe is wrong. But not not everything. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) ...

A project to map galaxies across the universe may have spied cracks in the foundation of our understanding of the cosmos.

The question of what existed before the Big Bang has baffled scientists for years. While theBig Bang is thought to have initiated the universe about 13.8 billion years ago, its origins remain a topic ...

After the Big Bang, the cosmos was filled with a superheated ... The standard model of cosmology is the conventional wisdom about the underlying physics of the universe. Often called the Lambda ...

Theoretical physicists James Hartle and Stephen Hawking, for example, proposed that rather than having a strict beginning as we would understand it, the universe evolved out of a "no-boundary" state ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

Data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has now given researchers new detailed images of the universe's earliest ...