If that happens, we would need to rethink not just our research, but the study of cosmology itself. We would need to find an entirely new cosmological model, one that works as well as our current one ...

Copernicus, a Polish astronomer who lived in the 16th century, is believed to be one of the early European scientists to have put forward the theoretical model that the sun was the center of the ...

We would need to find an entirely new cosmological model, one that works as well as our current one but that also explains this discrepancy. Needless to say, it would be a tall order. To many who ...

Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. The data, when combined with other cosmological measurements, hint at a possible weakening of dark energy’s influence over billions ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States. New research has ...