After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

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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We obviously can’t put the universe on a giant set of scales, but scientists have found astonishingly clever ways to […] ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

It will be a view unlike any other — completely invisible, exceptionally quiet and utterly transformative. Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later. But some have proposed that it went the other ...