Evidence suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not accelerate. The results imply dark energy is weakening ...

Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.

Katie Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist, assistant professor of physics at North Carolina State University and the author of The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking). “I’ve been trying to ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered some of the universe's earliest stars, located about 13 billion light-years from Earth ...

The Euclid telescope launched in 2023, hitching a ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 to study the cosmos from the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) from Earth. Its job is a big ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. About a century ago, scientists were struggling to ...

Current models (supported by experimental evidence) assume the Universe is infinitely big and has been for the 13.7 billion years since it sprang into existence. But language throws much confusion ...