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

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

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

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

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

A controversial new theory about how the universe began rejects the widely-held belief that it started with a giant cosmic eruption known as the Big Bang. One scientist suggests that the cosmos grew ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

The theory holds that space and time are soft, malleable entities. On the largest scales, space is naturally dynamic, expanding or contracting over time, carrying matter like driftwood on the tide.

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...

Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that powers the expansion of the universe, may undergo periodic 'violent transitions' ...