The universe's vastness challenges human comprehension. It contains trillions of galaxies and countless stars. Pluto's distance highlights cosmic scales. The observable universe spans 93 billion light ...

It's not much more than a dirt pit right now, but Canada’s largest radio telescope is expected to help scientists understand how dark energy is driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.

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

The visible universe just shrunk by 320 million light-years in all directions, updating a famous calculation that physicists first made 13 years ago. If you're trying to calculate the size of the ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

The universe is extremely vast, and even with modern science and technology, only a small amount is known about it. Humanity does not even have an answer to the age-old question, 'Is the universe ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. Everything on Earth, in our solar system, our galaxy, and beyond is contained within ...

Most people have at least a few embarrassing photos from their early childhood - and the universe is no different. Scientists from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration have reevaled the ...

Sometimes even being in a big city can be enough to make you feel small. But looking up into the empty vastness of space, the sheer size of the universe is almost impossible to comprehend. This ...