Confucian cosmology was never about superstition. Its real power lay in de-centering authority – binding rulers to a higher ...

Looking up at the night sky, it may seem our cosmic neighborhood is packed full of planets, stars and galaxies. But ...

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The 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting opened with a talk by Brian Schmidt, who shared the 2011 physics prize for the shocking revelation that the Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate ...

Other astrophysicists, like Priyamvada Natarajan at Yale who specializes in cosmology, are also impressed by the ACT map. “This is a beautiful piece of work,” she says.

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the ...

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology. JWST’s image of spiral galaxy NGC 628, which is 32 million light-years ...

For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos. Unlike ancient philosophers imagining the universe’s origins, modern cosmologists use quantitative tools to gain insights ...

In her multilayered paintings, myth, memory and empire collide in a palimpsest that resists linear storytelling and easy ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

More information: Charis Anastopoulos, Final states in quantum cosmology: Cosmic acceleration as a quantum postselection effect, Physical Review D (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.111.064045.

Stanislaw Lem Cosmology and Science Fiction Translated by Franz Rottensteiner These remarks owe their existence to a suggestion of Dr R. Mullen of Science-Fiction Studies, who received a review copy ...