Cosmologist L Sriramkumar said gravitational waves could help scientists understand what happened just fractions of a second after the Big Bang ...

"The polarized light of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to new physics that violates parity symmetry," the team ...

A new map offers a new perspective on the city, revealing the steady, ever-present natural radiation emerging from the ground ...

White noise on televisions and radios contained remnants of the Big Bang. When we saw it on screen during a bad reception or when channels were unavailable, we were unknowingly watching our universe's ...

It wasn’t long after Dr Laura Manenti landed in Sydney that she realised her new home was rather radioactive.

A proposed five-satellite Cosmic Positioning System could measure cosmic distances directly and help address discrepancies in the Hubble constant through solar system–scale triangulation.

For the first time, scientists have watched high‑energy cosmic rays at work deep inside a thick cloud of gas, not just at its outer surface. Using the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC), ...

So cosmologists feel confident in modelling the universe using the “maximally symmetric” description of space-time in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This symmetric vision for the universe, ...

Did You Know: An unusual yet scientifically accurate fact about one of the world’s most beloved fruits is drawing curiosity: bananas are mildly radioactive. Far from science fiction, this phenomenon ...

Tiny highly uniform magnetic fields are known to pervade the universe, influencing various cosmological processes. To date, ...

The world’s largest neutrino detector just got even more powerful after scientists successfully deployed ...

Theoretical research led by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga of the University of Portsmouth challenges the ...