Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered from observations of distant galaxies that the Universe was expanding. This baffled astronomers and the public alike. Then in 1998, another wrinkle: Two different ...

Cosmic inflation tries to describe one brief but crucial phase in the Big Bang that launched the universe onto its expansion course. Many textbooks and science educators have attempted to describe the ...

Dark matter is understood to interact “feebly” with the visible universe, but was that always true? Physicists have modeled the inflaton—a theoretical space scientists use to examine the period ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

A few hundred million years after the Big Bang, a thick fog of hydrogen gas shrouded the newborn universe in darkness. Stars had begun to form in the densest clumps, but the surrounding gas muffled ...

Scientists debate whether this object is the brightest in the visible universe, as a new study suggests. By Dennis Overbye Astronomers claimed on Monday that they had discovered what might be the ...

How to envision travel across the Visible Universe and beyond.<BR><BR>Space is big ... everyone knows that.<BR><BR>Consider your wardrobe. 2 metres high, 2 metres wide, 1/2 a metre deep. 2 cubic ...

The JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) program recently looked back at hundreds of the oldest visible galaxies in the universe. Just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, early ...

Many textbooks and science educators have attempted to describe the Big Bang as the birth of the universe — an explosive ...