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

Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in ...

In the first full quarter of operation, Comcast’s Epic Universe theme park drove double-digit gains for the company’s theme ...

For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated that applying pixelized strong-lensing ...

The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing intricate details. As you might imagine, mapping the universe on the largest of ...

Researchers have moved one step closer to solving one of science’s greatest mysteries—why the universe is filled with matter instead of nothing. Scientists at Indiana University have made a major ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able to see photos captured from the depths of space, where time and distance ...

"We already see indications of cracks in the standard model." Are we living in a simulation? Well, the jury's out on that one. But humans do create simulations all the time. In fact, the Euclid ...

In October 1923, Edwin Hubble utilized the 100-inch Hooker telescope to photograph the Andromeda Nebula, identifying a variable star within it. Hubble applied the known period-luminosity relationship ...