Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

The Big Bang Theory, combined with Einstein’s theory of general ... searching for a solution that could resolve long-standing inconsistencies in cosmology. In doing so, they discovered that an exact, ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

The Big Bang model begins with a point of infinite density where the laws of physics break down. This is a deep theoretical problem that suggests the beginning of the Universe is not fully understood, ...

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...

The Big Bang may mark an end—not the start—of a previous universe's aeon. Penrose's theory sees the universe as an eternal ...

The discovery, made with the LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio instrument in Europe, indicates that galaxy clusters, which ...

Could the Universe have been born inside a black hole? This question, raised by a team of scientists, challenges the Big Bang ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

Hints of the very first stars to light the Universe might be discovered in a faint radio signal feebly beaming from the dawn ...