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

Back in the 1960s, Frank Drake, an American astrophysicist and astrobiologist, proposed an equation aimed at estimating the ...

A shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other galaxies is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter." ...

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 ...

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

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

Theoretical physicist Abhay Ashtekar is famous for having worked on an idea for how space-time itself is generated. So we ...

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

Argonne National Laboratory used the Frontier supercomputer to run the most detailed universe simulation ever.

Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...