Cosmologists have an embarrassing problem: we don’t know what shape the universe is. The cosmos has three possible geometries ...

Have you ever stopped to think that the universe, the vast stage where everything happens might be just a small part of something much bigger and more mysterious? Everything we know: stars, galaxies, ...

Since conventional explanations have failed to pony up dark matter, one physicist is looking towards the unconventional. In a series of two papers, physicist Stefano Profumo of the University of ...

Travel from our fragile Pale Blue Dot to the outermost reaches of the observable universe. Visualize distances from the Moon ...

Thanks to Fink, a software package created by two CNRS engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, ...

Benjamin Wandelt, a pioneer at the intersection of cosmology, statistics, and artificial intelligence, is transforming how we extract fundamental physics from astronomical data. Driven by a deep ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our ...

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The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

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