Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies with distinct features that challenge predictions made by the ...

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

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Seconds after the Big Bang, the Universe exhibited an astonishing simplicity. Observations reveal a spatially flat, radiation ...

For a long time, astronomers believed galaxy formation followed a very specific model: cosmic gas collects in clumps, stars ...

We tested whether “anthropic reasoning” may offer a suitable answer. Anthropic reasoning is the idea that we can infer properties of our universe from the fact that we, humans, exist. In the late 80s, ...

One of humanity’s gifts is the ability to know a staggering truth without going mad. The late, great author Douglas Adams ...

Kraven the Hunter's director pleads with fans to give his upcoming comic book movie starring the popular Spider-Man villain a ...

The findings call into question just how finely tuned our universe really is. Somewhere in the multiverse, there could be universes more predisposed to forming stars, and possibly life ...

Edwin Hubble, a renowned astronomer, revolutionized our understanding of the universe. He proved the existence of galaxies ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation.

Back in the 19 nineties, astronomers started to see growing evidence that the universe was accelerating. We thought gravity would slow things down so I could throw up *** ball. Gravity is gonna ...