It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Astronomers analyzing Sloan Digital Sky Survey data stumbled onto something they weren’t expecting: a structure stretching ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. Whether the universe will "end" at all is ...

Biggest vs smallest - how do we measure up in the grand scheme of the universe? Explore the fascinating scales of existence, from quantum particles to the observable universe’s edge. A journey into ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe’s contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and electrons. Most of those atoms cannot be found in stars and galaxies – a ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, releasing energy in the process. This energy could heat the hydrogen and helium ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...