Could the universe be spinning like a giant top? This idea, proposed by physicist Nikodem Poplawski, opens surprising ...

Almost a thousand of the world’s top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK’s National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025. NAM is the flagship annual event ...

Almost a thousand of the world's top space scientists will visit Durham University next week (7 to 11 July) as we host the UK's National Astronomy ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

The Giant Magellan Telescope team explains how the observatory will help solve the mysteries of the cosmos including the search for life.

Dr Victoria Fawcett has been named as the winner of the 2025 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship by the Royal Astronomical ...

两朵新“乌云”暗物质和暗能量被称为21世纪现代物质科学中两朵新的“乌云”。它们虽然无法直接观测，但科学家通过引力效应推测它们的存在对宇宙结构和演化起着关键作用。暗物质暗物质是一种不发光、不吸收光的物质，它不与电磁波相互作用，因此无法用现有的天文仪器直 ...

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our ...

A virtual “flight” through a portion of the largest 3D map of the universe to date, using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).

Now, recent findings released March 19 from two of the largest cosmological surveys to date — the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey and the Dark Energy Survey (DES ...