It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...

Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is perhaps understandable that we haven’t yet cracked all its secrets. But there are actually some pretty basic features, ones we used to think we ...

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, ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

From our tiny part of space, it can be hard to image exactly how much is out there beyond the reaches of our solar system. But in reality, our Earth is just a tiny part of our solar system, itself ...

Ian G. McCarthy receives funding from UKRI's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). He works for Liverpool John Moores University. Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is ...