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

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make ...

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

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

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 ...

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 ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared. An enormous black hole in the early ...

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

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 ...