There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of "memory cells" that record the whole history of the universe. If true, it could explain the nature of dark matter and much more ...

The Earth might be near the center of a vast low-density void in space, which could explain one of the cosmos's greatest ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

Books & the Arts / To understand the philosophical dimensions of her fiction you must read her 1961 novel The Apple in the ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

Is cosmology in crisis?It was not, unfortunately, an isolated incident. There have been other recent occasions in which the evidence behind science’s basic understanding of the universe has been ...

Can cosmology untangle the universe’s most elusive mysteries? From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope could help resolve some cosmic discrepancies: How fast the universe is expanding and how evenly matter is distributed.

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.

Out of its past troubles, the model may emerge not only vindicated, but also strengthened, and cosmology will be a science that is both precise and accurate.