To truly understand our place in the universe, we must first comprehend the concept of scale. It is only through understanding the relative sizes of the entities around us that we can appreciate ...

New measurements of a certain type of supernova seems to indicate that our expanding universe isn't accelerating at all, negating any need to invoke a mysterious 'dark energy' to explain supernovae ...

Let me demonstrate how they should be spaced out with a scale model of my own.' DALLASNow our sun is a fairly average-sized star, there's much bigger stars than ours in the universe, so let's ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe.

The Standard Model (SM), the main physics framework describing elementary particles and the forces driving them, outlines key ...

Astronomers have discovered a cosmic superstructure so massive it reshapes our understanding of the universe's largest-scale ...

There may be large scale density inhomogeneities (such as quasar clusters) in the universe, and their effect on the angular distribution of the cosmic black-body radiation could potentially be ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal has introduced a new theoretical model that explains astrophysical ...

For a long time, scientists have believed that the universe looks the same no matter where you are or which direction you ...

the model faces scrutiny. Critics argue that it lacks a definitive explanation for certain phenomena well-accounted for by inflation, such as the observed large-scale structure of the Universe.