The Big Bang Theory remains the most accepted explanation for how the universe began. This documentary explores the science, ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the ...

While an eternal and infinite universe is appealing, the idea does not fit in with modern observations of redshift and galaxy ...

Astronomers from the University of Southampton made the unexpected discovery while examining an infant galaxy 12 billion ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

If the thought of a supermassive black hole terrifies you, a new study may provide some relief. Scientists say that these ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe ...

Scientists propose that gravitational waves shaped the universe. Their model challenges inflation theory. How exactly did the ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

The origin of our Universe remains one of the greatest enigmas of science, a question that seems to defy the limits of our physical understanding. For decades, cosmologists have struggled with ...