Looking up at the night sky, it may seem our cosmic neighbourhood is packed full of planets, stars and galaxies. But scientists have long suggested there may be far fewer galaxies in our cosmic ...

Echoes of baryon acoustic oscillations can still be found today within the cosmic microwave background (CMB) picked up by the Planck Space Telescope (Credit: Getty Images) In the first few hundred ...

A small ripple that triggers a tidal wave. In the primordial Universe, tiny quantum fluctuations could have had a profound effect on the cosmos. Using cutting-edge numerical simulations, a team of ...