The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

So there are a few astronomy profiles I follow on social media that have proclaimed that “galaxy season” has recently begun.

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 ...

The oldest stars in the Milky Way are forcing a fresh look at one of cosmology’s biggest arguments. If some of them are about ...

You say in your article that modern, scientific cosmology didn’t get started until roughly the 1920s. What happened then? It’s not as though nothing happened earlier. People have been speculating ...

Investigations into the unknowns of space and time -- and abstract questions around early universe cosmology relating to the Big Bang, black holes and universe expansion -- are focal points of ongoing ...

The study of symmetries in black hole spacetimes has emerged as a cornerstone for comprehending the underlying dynamics of these enigmatic compact objects. By identifying both explicit and hidden ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four major astronomy projects worth ₹3,500 crore announced in the Union Budget, set for completion in 3 to 13 years.

It used to be that cosmology was really difficult because the instruments weren’t quite up to the task. Back in the 1930s, Hubble and his colleague Milton Humason struggled for years to collect ...