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

Recap - While NZ leaves 2024 with fewer reporters than it started, no one told the news - so it just kept happening. And it ...

Recent astronomical discoveries reveal that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, a phenomenon that challenges ...

Modern cosmology stands on the brink of a transformative era, where groundbreaking observational technologies redefine our ...

By applying this principle to cosmic expansion, we can model the Universe by the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) ...

The Anthropic Principle, a concept at the intersection of science and philosophy, has long served as a fallback explanation for perplexing questions about the universe. Why is the cosmological ...

This course provides an introduction to cosmological models and important eras in the history of the universe, including inflation and the generation of inhomogeneities by quantum fluctuations. define ...

Cosmologists eventually decided that the expansion was being driven by a force they called dark energy and began to develop a cosmological model that could account for it, called the Lambda-Cold Dark ...

For decades, the cosmological field was working under the assumption that, after the universe began in a hot dense soup of energy that expanded in the Big Bang, it continued to expand, forming the ...

The universe is undergoing an accelerated expansion. We call the source of this expansion dark energy – a mysterious form of energy that permeates the whole universe pushing space-time apart.