What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse? What lies beyond the boundary of a black hole? The universe seems to be rotating, and if ...

Mind-blowing. Those are the two words I'd use to describe the "Mysteries of the Universe" weekender discovery tour, hosted by New Scientist. Over two days in the Cheshire countryside, a group of space ...

Chris Neu studies dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider, bringing big ideas to his classroom and students into his lab.

I have always been drawn to the strange edge cases where our best theories simply do not fit the facts. From mysterious ...

“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...

A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to search data from a NASA space telescope for objects such as black holes.

The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), in collaboration with The Pokémon Company, has launched the "Pokémon ...

Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...

Aug. 1 is Women Astronomers Day, highlighting the historical achievements of women in astronomy. The designation honors the birthdate, in 1818, of Maria Mitchell, the first American woman astronomer ...

The universe is a vast, spectacular place that humans have striven to understand for millennia. Now, with the help of instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope, which snapped this image of the ...

Unraveling The Universe's Mysteries by Louis A. Del Monte is an important book on the origins of the universe, as well as the infinite universes with bubbles within. Del Monte discusses how the ...