A new method could improve cosmology research by analyzing supernovae together with the galaxies that host them.

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Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a new paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, mathematicians ...

A record-setting collection of precisely measured gravitational waves reveals new information about how black holes behave ...

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Stephen Hawking at his office at the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University in 2005. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian. Before he u ...

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Quantum computers have the potential to transform science, accelerating breakthroughs in drug development, cosmology, ...

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The latest from the James Webb Space Telescope could completely change what we know about the formation of these astronomical ...