The universe is not just large - it is structured in layers that grow exponentially in size. Solar systems form galaxies, ...

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

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Paul Sutter explores how ancient creation myths and modern cosmology answer the same questions, framing the Big Bang as a scientific creation story rooted in observation and theory ...

Final data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope has ruled out 30 models of the universe, sharpening the Hubble tension and ...

If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

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

Astronomers are a step closer to cracking one of the secrets of dark energy—the mysterious force believed to be causing the universe's accelerated expansion.

We hear that space is huge, but our brains quietly turn that into something we can imagine, which is nowhere close to the ...