In a remote stretch of canyon country along the US-Mexico border, painted walls are rewriting what we think we know about the ...

Let’s say you have a baby. Maybe you really do, maybe you don’t. But Dan Scolnic, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, does have one, and perhaps that's why a hypothetical baby helps him ...

Cosmology is a branch of astronomy involving the science of the universe's origin. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Cosmology is a ...

Do scientists need to re-examine the basic model of the universe? Using new measurements of cosmic distances, astronomers have refined their calculation of the Hubble Constant, a number that describes ...

By Ben BRAKOFor centuries, African spiritual philosophy was corralled at the margins of global thought—reduced by colonial narratives to folklore, or dismissed by rationalist currents as ...

Cosmology is one of the most creative and bizarre areas of science. Explore some of the strangest ideas in this exclusive feature Could our universe be a membrane floating in higher dimensional space, ...

"Presented at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, November 19-23, 1987." Summary Tuareg leather and metal ornaments, as symbolic visual systems, are ...

A giant arc of galaxies appears to stretch across more than 3 billion light-years in the distant universe. If the arc turns out to be real, it would challenge a bedrock assumption of cosmology: that ...

Andreea Font receives funding from Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a ...