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 ...

For the first time ever, you can time travel through space to the edge of the visible universe from the comfort of your own home. Johns Hopkins University unveiled a first-of-its-kind map on Thursday ...

Researchers have long suspected a connection between information and the physical universe, with various paradoxes and thought experiments used to explore how or why information could be encoded in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When people picture the universe, they imagine everything still out there, sitting in space waiting to be discovered. The truth […] ...

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 ...

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 ...