Determining the expansion rate of the universe, the "Hubble constant," shapes our understanding of the cosmos, its age, and its fate.

Scientists have used the world's fastest supercomputer to create the largest simulation of the cosmos ever created.

We are the products of progressive stages of evolution. With this in mind, the Drake equation can be cast as: In that ...

We are the Universe trying to understand itself. How, and why, did we come to be? Why does the Universe take the shape it ...

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

Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe. New research may explain how they formed, thanks to primordial "seeds".

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

The strength of dark energy in our universe is not optimized for forming stars, which means other universes might have a ...

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

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