Astronomers have traced the hidden fingerprints of dark matter by observing rare, glowing galaxies that lived in the early ...

For centuries, humanity has pondered the ultimate fate of the universe. From theories of infinite expansion to the concept of ...

How old are the stars? Even with the most accurate tools currently available for modeling stellar evolution, the answer ...

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of ...

Dark energy, which drives the accelerated expansion of the Universe, is assumed to be constant since the Universe began by ...

The plot represents the new model with the x-axis and the y-axis showing the minimum sizes of collapsing and expanding regions that can impact cosmological measurements. The contours are independent ...

Since the early 20th century, scientists have gathered compelling evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating ...

The team examined an ancient quasar which they described as “a galaxy with a black hole so old and bright it looks like a cosmic beacon from the dawn of time”. Their study showed that the quasar had a ...

The universe may have been born out of nothing, with an "anti-universe" twin where time runs in the opposite direction—rather than exploding from an infinitely small and dense point, or "singularity." ...

One of the first chemical reactions thought to have occurred in the universe has long posed a conundrum, as it seemed the ...

On transmuting Boyle's law to Darwin's revolution / Stephen Jay Gould -- The evolution of cellular development / Lewis Wolpert -- The evolution of guns and germs / Jared Diamond -- The evolution of ...