Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

The search for the universe’s center starts with a simple intuition: if everything exploded outward in the Big Bang, there ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down.

In a cafe at CERN in 1992, three physicists realized they disagreed about how many constants are needed to describe all of nature. A recent paper suggests only one – time – is necessary.

For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space and one of time might be only ...

BEIJING -- A series of scientific satellites launched by China have achieved major discoveries in fields such as cosmic transient objects, cosmic-ray propagation and solar eruptions, renewing humanity ...

The Euclid telescope launched in 2023, hitching a ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 to study the cosmos from the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) from Earth. Its job is a big ...

When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands into the baking pan. Any chocolate chips or blueberries in the muffin ...

The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...