The largest survey of our universe ever conducted suggests that it closely matches the model most favored by cosmologists. It ...

The largest 3D map of the universe ever created has just confirmed Einstein’s theories. This map helps scientists understand ...

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

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

The largest magnetic fields in the universe may have found themselves charged up when the first stars began to shine, ...

The universe began with a vast explosion that generated space and time, and created all the matter and energy in the universe. Exactly what triggered this sudden expansion remains a mystery.

Scientists proposed the idea after struggling for decades to explain both the mysterious beginning of the universe as well as the birth of dark matter. The first big bang could have created ...