It all started with a Big Bang – and now scientists are on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe.
New research into dark matter suggests it might have originated from a "Dark Big Bang," distinct from the traditional Big ...
A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.
The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...
The first piece of the Euclid space telescope's map of the universe is crammed with 14 million galaxies and 100 million sources of light. The mapping project is now 1% done.
This is just 1% of the map, and yet it is full of a variety of sources that will help scientists discover new ways to describe the Universe,” said Valeria Pettorino, Euclid project scientist at ...
A radical hypothesis suggesting black holes could be behind the accelerating expansion of our universe has been stirring up controversy among astronomers. A new study may contain the first tantalizing ...
Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life.
The Epoch of Reionization — the universe’s last major transition — may have happened earlier than previously thought.