Today's physicists are struggling with a quandary. They have accepted two separate theories that explain how the universe works: Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes the ...

Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the cosmos grew so quickly before dying.

The largest survey of our universe ever conducted suggests that it closely matches the model most favored by cosmologists. It ...

Plate tectonics is a perfect example of this. Space view of Earth's magnetic rocks Mapping Earth's slow surface warping Gravity satellite probes deep Earth It tells us why the Himalayas are so ...

Some, according to the Hartle-Hawking theory, would be very like our own, perhaps have Earth-like planets, societies, even individuals similar to the ones in our Universe. Other universes would be ...

in which most of the universe orbits the Earth, but the other five known planets circle the sun. John Huchra, Thomas Jarrett 2Mass Collaboration, U. Mass., IPAC The Long View (2013): The true ...

Put simply, around 14 billion years ago, all matter and energy in the universe was at a point of ... It is thought the Earth was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from dust and gas left after ...