Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

Astronomers who examined the sound waves from the Big Bang say that the Earth and the entire Milky Way could be trapped in a ...

The Big Bang theory is the widely accepted explanation of how the universe began, but one question has persisted: What happened before the Big Bang? According to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger ...

Researchers analyze fossilized sounds of the Big Bang in space, and the distortions present in it indicate that the Milky Way Galaxy is stored in a void.

Some faint stars may not burn with fusion but with dark matter itself. These "dark dwarfs" could be the long-awaited clue to ...

The Center, which will allow for better understanding of the theories of the universe, is a collaborative research initiative between the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG) in ...

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

Battle of the Big Bang provides an entertaining update on the collective obsessions and controlled schizophrenias in ...

Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding at the center of our galaxy and could offer key clues to uncover the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

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 ...

Between 1920 and 1970, cosmology became a branch of physics. This text examines how the big bang theory drew inspiration from, and eventually triumphed over, rival views, mainly the steady-state ...