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As part of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020), the Panel on Cosmology will identify and articulate the scientific themes that will define the frontier in cosmology research ...

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Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that teleology is a remnant of antiquated ways of thinking about causation, and ...

Dark energy remains one of the most stubborn puzzles in modern science. Despite decades of observation and increasingly powerful telescopes, its true nature is still unknown. Now, scientists involved ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Findings from a new study into the cosmic "afterglow" may rewrite the history of the universe, according to researchers.

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has culminated in a groundbreaking new image that reveals the most detailed map of dark matter distributed across a quarter of the entire sky, ...

Benjamin Wandelt, a pioneer at the intersection of cosmology, statistics, and artificial intelligence, is transforming how we extract fundamental physics from astronomical data. Driven by a deep ...

In the era of precision cosmology, research often means big science: large observatories, highly complex instruments, ...

The Planck Team--including researchers in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab's) Computational Research (CRD) and Physics divisions--and its Principal Investigators Nazzareno ...