Six planets grace the sky this month in what's called a planetary parade — Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are visible to the ...

Back in 1998, astronomers made a curious discovery. By studying the behavior of distant supernovas, they concluded that the universe is not just expanding, but that this expansion is accelerating. The ...

Renowned cosmologist Rajendra Gupta from the University of Ottawa visited the University of Kerala, where he discussed his groundbreaking work on estimating the age of the universe.

New research confirms the Universe is expanding faster than theoretical models predict, intensifying the Hubble tension.

To use Einstein’s theories to solve the conundrum of dark energy-the engine for the accelerated expansion of the universe-scientists is currently on the move in 2025. Predictions due to Einstein, the ...

The early universe experienced a phase of rapid expansion, known as inflation. For decades, cosmologists assumed that this ...

"Up to this year, most observations were consistent, with dark energy being the cosmological constant. Nonetheless, 2024 was full of hints pointing out this might not be the case." 2024 was a big ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...

However, this explanation presents the "cosmological constant problem"—quantum field theory predicts a value for Λ that is 120 orders of magnitude larger than observed.

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