An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home for a very, very long time.

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

Scientists have many big questions to tackle about the universe, including how big it actually is. But even the proposed ...

The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

Dark energy is one of the most mysterious concepts in all of the cosmos. We know very little about what it is but it just might play an overwhelming role in the death of the universe. Often referred ...

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Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the beginning of the universe? The short answer is "no." But the long answer ...

As mysterious as the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe is the brief but tumultuous period that immediately followed it. How did the cosmos transform from a uniform sea of darkness into a ...

Astronomers are uncovering new ways to study the universe’s first stars, objects too distant and faint to observe directly, by examining the ancient 21-centimeter radio signal left behind by hydrogen ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...