The Universe is growing. Scientists have known as much for decades, but the rate at which it is getting bigger has been the topic of debate, with different measurements pointing to different rates of ...

Astronomers have used all sorts of tricks over the years to try to convey the mind-boggling scale of the universe to us ordinary folks. If you could drive your car from here to the nearest star at 60 ...

It’s hard to fathom the size of the universe. But two Stony Brook University professors are part of a project designed to do just that — an effort scientists say is making advances. Researchers in the ...

The question of whether the cosmos goes on forever is no longer just a late night thought experiment, it is a live research ...

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

This logarithmic view of the Universe shows our solar system, the galaxy, the cosmic web, and the limits of what's observable out to a distance of 46.1 billion light-years away. This view is only ...

In a hypertorus model of the Universe, motion in a straight line will return you to your original location, even in an uncurved (flat) spacetime. This multiply connected topology might be able to be ...

The reef fish population in the Gulf is growing ahead of the 2025 red snapper season, according to the University of South Alabama's annual fish survey. When astronomers got their first glimpses of ...

When the universe's first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth's sun, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

New research suggests holographic dark energy could stop the universe's expansion. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers ...

Kurzgesagt’s latest In a Nutshell video takes us once more to the depths of space to look at the scary phenomena that are black holes. Rather than go into topics like dark matter and how black holes ...