"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

I've long been fascinated by the fundamental mystery of our universe's origin. In my work, I explore an alternative to the ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

Theoretical physicists James Hartle and Stephen Hawking, for example, proposed that rather than having a strict beginning as ...

Dark energy is a mystery so daunting that it stretches and strains our most robust theories. The universe is expanding, driven by the unknown force that we've named Dark Energy. Dark Energy is also ...

Physicists had long assumed that the elusive force has constant strength. But the latest results from a project to map the ...

With the first large dataset from the Euclid space telescope, researchers discover 26 million galaxies and the detailed ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Known as the cosmic microwave background, the microwaves are a relic from a time when the universe was first cooling down ...

Germany’s members of the Euclid Consortium have played a significant role in producing the mission’s first large set of survey data which the European Space Agency has just released. The data includes ...

Covering a vast sky area in three mosaics, the data release also includes numerous galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei and transient phenomena ...