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

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 ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

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 ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began its legendary mission unfolding the secrets of our universe and producing some of the most detailed images of celestial objects to date.

The slower growth of gravitational wells and the accelerating expansion might share the same underlying cause.” In so many ...

Astronomers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) joined global celebrations to mark the first light images of the Legacy ...

What is dark energy and why is it so important? If the Universe only contained ordinary matter and dark matter, we would expect the gravitational pull of all the mass in the Universe to be slowing ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Machine learning can help tighten constraints on the overarchingFor almost as long as humans have existed, we have been ...