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

Modern cosmology suggests that the universe has no single spatial centre or edge. The Big Bang did not occur at one ...

Ten years ago, science confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s most elusive predictions: the existence of gravitational waves. Now ...

There could be a 90 percent chance that in the next decade, astronomers will spot a deep space explosion that confirms ...

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The reason it could be heard by teams on multiple telescopes and in all different directions was because that irritating noise was in fact the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

For more than two decades, astronomers have wrestled with one of the biggest mysteries in science: what is driving the ...

Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.

A Belgian priest came up with the Big Bang almost a century ago—but he also wanted to keep science and faith as separate as ...

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...