It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all.

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

A new joint analysis from the NOvA and T2K experiments offers the most precise look yet at neutrino behavior, bringing ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense ...

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