The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

To astronomers in the 1990s, these three facts were self-evident: The universe is expanding; all the matter in the universe is gravitationally attracting all the other matter in the universe; ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using ...

The Hubble constant describes the current expansion rate of the universe and is a core parameter in modern cosmology. However ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked. And causing the universe to expand.

The scientific study of cosmology, the field that focuses on the origins and evolution of the universe, is barely a century old. It has already been transformed more than once by new ideas, new ...

Now, more than 150 years later, a team of Japanese physicists are resurrecting the concept to solve one of cosmology’s ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope is a collaborative project led by Penn and Princeton researchers (Photo Courtesy of ACT Collaboration). The Atacama Cosmology Telescope — a National Science ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

The "standard model" of cosmology, initially based on the Big Bang, the expansion of the universe, and the cosmic microwave background radiation, evolved into a more comprehensive "lambda-cold dark ...