In the late 1990s, cosmologists made a prediction about how much ordinary matter there should be in the universe. About 5%, they estimated, should be regular stuff with the rest a mixture of dark ...

Cosmology’s neat story of a universe driven apart by a simple, invisible “cosmic fuel” is starting to fray. A growing body of ...

Warner Prize-winning husband and wife astrophysicists, Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, discuss their work, the Universe, the space program and God. This clip is from The Cosmologists. BBC Archive: ...

Cosmology is in for exciting times, going by the latest research that suggests the key to revealing the fundamental nature of the universe lies in finding out how clumpy it is. Accepted theory has it ...

Robert Nichol receives funding from STFC for work on 4MOST. As I finished my PhD in 1992, the universe was full of mystery – we didn’t even know exactly what it is made of. One could argue that ...

For decades, cosmologists have relied on models that neatly explain the universe — until one element kept refusing to fall in line. Despite advanced simulations and powerful telescopes, this anomaly ...