When discussing the scale of the universe, we’re immediately faced with an intriguing question: are we tiny beings, or is the ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

IT IS ONE of the biggest mysteries in cosmology—and getting bigger all the time. Ever since Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, published observations of distant galaxies in 1929, scientists have ...

Scientists found where the universe’s missing matter went. Black holes have been pushing it far away from galaxies.

Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the long-running Hubble tension. Galaxy counts reveal a sparsely populated ...

The Simons Observatory is one of the most ambitious cosmic observatories on Earth, dedicated to studying the cosmic microwave ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

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

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