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After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

The team explores one of the greatest discoveries of modern astronomy - that our universe is expanding - and the new questions it raises about how the cosmos works. The team explores one of the ...

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

For two decades, scientists believed the cosmological constant, known as λ (lambda), was positive. That meant the Universe ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized explosion but a simultaneous ...

To answer Robertson: The Higgs field doesn’t appear to have more valleys to explore, according to our current understanding.

A new Utah Valley University study is providing new evidence in a debate astronomers across the world haven’t been able to agree on — how fast the universe is expanding. The findings may add more fuel ...

The Universe still holds many mysteries, and among the most intriguing are these invisible components known as dark matter and dark energy. For decades, astronomers have estimated that ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a finite timeline, new calculations suggest.