Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

You may think that time started 13.8 billion years ago at the birth of the universe, but physicists with alternative ...

Despite its whimsical name, Quipu (pronounced “kee-poo”) is the largest confirmed superstructure in the universe to date in ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the Universe.

Unexpected epochs of stillness that punctuate the cosmic timeline could offer a natural explanation for dark matter and many ...

Is the universe infinite, Aristotle asked in 350 BCE, “or is this an impossibility? The decision … is … all-important to our search for the truth.” The Greek ...

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

Soon, a new cone-shaped spacecraft will launch into space on a mission to chart the skies like never before. Called SPHEREx (for Spectro-Photometer ...

In hope of discovering the source of time's river, University of Surrey physicists Thomas Guff, Chintalpati Umashankar Shastry, and Andrea Rocco looked for signs of its existence in the equivalent of ...

If scientists confirm an anisotropic expansion, it would challenge the assumption that the universe has no preferred directions.