The past, present and future of the universe is about to be revealed in unprecedented detail by Britain’s biggest academic supercomputer called the Cosmology Machine, based at the University of Durham ...

“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...

For over two decades, cosmologists have believed that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, driven by a ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

Paul Sutter explores how ancient creation myths and modern cosmology answer the same questions, framing the Big Bang as a scientific creation story rooted in observation and theory ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Astronomers have assumed for decades that the Universe is expanding at the same rate in all directions. A new study based on data from ESA’s XMM-Newton, NASA’s Chandra and the German-led ROSAT X-ray ...

Scientists made a twin version of our universe, showing the evolution of all forms of matter and energy, in the biggest cosmological computer simulation to date. When you purchase through links on our ...

The clearest pictures yet of the newborn cosmos strengthen the prevailing model of the universe but deepen a mystery about its expansion rate. Measurements of this rate, known as the Hubble constant, ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

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How did it all begin? For a hundred years, scientists have posited that the Universe began with a Big Bang. All of the matter, and even space itself, was compressed into an infinitely small point. In ...