Elena Tomasetti of the University of Bologna discusses her team's calculation of the estimated age of the universe in an exclusive interview with Starlust.

An international research team has found that the Milky Way and its galactic neighbors appear to sit inside a vast, flat concentration of dark matter, a structure stretching roughly 10 megaparsecs and ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

It's hard to get a sense of the scale of the universe from our little corner of it, but scientists realized decades back that the universe is expanding. This naturally led to questions about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe. The Earth is at the central vertex, and every ...

This framework forces a profound philosophical shift: our Big Bang was merely a local event. The 93-billion-light-year sphere of space we can observe is just a tiny boat in a massive cosmic ocean, ...

The expansion of the universe at some stage of evolution is well described by the Friedmann model. It was derived from general relativity a hundred years ago, but it is still considered one of the ...

Aug. 29 (UPI) --Early universe observations by the James Webb Space Telescope cannot be explained by current cosmological models. These models estimate the universe to be 13.8 billion years in age, ...

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Researchers from the University of Bologna and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) along with other institutes have proposed a new way to address the Hubble tension by comparing ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States. New research has ...