In the era of precision cosmology, research often means big science: large observatories, highly complex instruments, international collaborations and substantial funding. Yet even in such an advanced ...

A recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has provided the most accurate measurement of the universe’s expansion rate, a discovery that not only refines our understanding of cosmology but ...

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that teleology is a remnant of antiquated ways of thinking about causation, and ...

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The Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet framework extends Einstein’s theory of General Relativity by including a higher-order curvature term that gains dynamical relevance in dimensions beyond four. This approach ...

As part of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020), the Panel on Cosmology will identify and articulate the scientific themes that will define the frontier in cosmology research ...

Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has culminated in a groundbreaking new image that reveals the most detailed map of dark matter distributed across a quarter of the entire sky, ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences (CPNSS) is searching for a CPNSS Research Officer in Cosmology and the Edge of the Universe (Philosophy of Physics 2). Application deadline: 15 ...