Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized ...

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...

Research team includes astrophysicists, computer scientists, artists, and philosophers from UC Riverside, USC, and Carnegie ...

Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event from a black hole merger, hinting that all three singularities were locked in ...

From early experiments with lanterns to Einstein’s revelations about space and time, the speed of light has proven to be far ...

A backward, mirror universe could explain the existence of dark matter. If an anti-universe exists, it would run backward in time, before the Big Bang. Dark matter, then, could be right-handed ...

That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that uncertainty produces others, too: it makes it impossible to calculate an exact age ...

Astronomers once thought the universe's first stars (made of hydrogen and helium) were nearly all giants, hundreds to ...

The first chemical reactions in the wake of the Big Bang have been recreated for the first time in conditions similar to those in the baby Universe.

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Black holes are complicated beasts. They have consistently broken our physics and studying them has opened our eyes to the ...

Three new majors were announced the first week of September in an open house on BYU campus. The new majors include data ...