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

In an underground lab in a mountainous region of Italy that contains the coldest temperatures known to exist in the universe, ...

It all started with a Big Bang – and now scientists are on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe.

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they ...

and the universe would eventually grind to halt, according to Live Science. This is the “long freeze”—a period of time during which the universe’s expansion would have completely stopped, and the lack ...

Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life.

As the universe expands (as it does in a dark matter-dominated universe) the distance between us and all other stars ...

Physicists including Robert H. Dickle and Fred Hoyle have argued that we are living in a universe that is perfectly fine-tuned for life. Following the anthropic principle, they claimed that the ...

The Epoch of Reionization — the universe’s last major transition — may have happened earlier than previously thought.

Quantum science is revolutionizing technology, from computing to healthcare. NSF-backed innovations explore qubits, error ...

Astronomers know that the universe is being pushed apart at an accelerating rate and they puzzled for decades over what could possibly be speeding everything up. They theorize that a powerful ...