According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

So, what, then, is it? And what does it mean for the Cosmological Principle, which states that, in all directions, any given ...

Such large structures should not exist according to one of the guiding principles of astronomy, called the cosmological principle. This states that all matter is spread smoothly across the Universe.

So if we drop the cosmological principle we might possibly get rid of dark energy, too. Astronomers hope soon to know more. The Dark Energy Survey is one project located at the Cerro Tololo Inter ...

The discovery of a second ultra-large structure in the remote universe has further challenged some of the basic assumptions about cosmology. The Big Ring in the Sky is 9.2 billion light-years from ...