It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, ...

A new joint analysis from the NOvA and T2K experiments offers the most precise look yet at neutrino behavior, bringing ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

This story is part of our Cosmic Perspective series, in which we confront the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it. Read the rest of the series here. In a sense, we are at the centre ...

A controversial new theory about how the universe began rejects the widely-held belief that it started with a giant cosmic eruption known as the Big Bang. One scientist suggests that the cosmos grew ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. Whether the universe will "end" at all is ...

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Humans have many ...