Astronomy studies celestial objects and phenomena beyond Earth. Astronomy degrees offer specializations like cosmology, planetary science, and stellar astrophysics. Astronomers use telescopes, math, ...

Current physics is speeding toward a breaking point, as astronomers confirm that the Hubble tension in new data.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...

Astronomers have assumed for decades that the Universe is expanding at the same rate in all directions. A new study based on data from ESA’s XMM-Newton, NASA’s Chandra and the German-led ROSAT X-ray ...

In this series I give you an overview of important ideas in the area of cosmology. This video is the second in the series, and focuses on dark matter. Using various detectors and research methods, ...

Everybody enjoys a good mystery. And boy, right now there’s a doozie of a mystery in cosmology. Cosmology is the “big picture” of astronomy. Cosmology attempts to understand the creation on the ...

Johns Hopkins University theoretical physicist Marc Kamionkowski is one of three physicists to be awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize for their contributions to methods essential for studying the ...

Originally published in England under the title The Fontana history of astronomy and cosmology. Statement of responsibility from jacket. Prehistory -- Ancient Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- The Greek and ...