"The Story of Everything" documentary argues scientific discoveries about the universe, DNA and fine-tuning point to the existence of a creator God.

The conclusion of DESI's first survey marks an important milestone for cosmology, which finds itself in a bind for the best reasons.

One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind it. Columnist Leah Crane ...

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of science's biggest questions—the Hubble tension. Subscribe to our newsletter for ...

Cyclic cosmology, or the big bounce, is the idea that the universe will eventually crunch back together and then go through another big bang. Columnist Leah Crane finds that, appropriately, it’s comin ...

This sketch is of the cosmic microwave background timeline of the universe in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model. The accelerated expansion shown in the last third of the timeline represents the dark ...

Did The universe really begin with a bang, a bounce? The theory that the universe is both possibly having endured a sudden contraction and then bounced into the expanding universe we know today is not ...

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