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 discrepancy has become undeniable, and its implications are so profound that it's been dubbed a "crisis in cosmology." Is our understanding ... to be near the center of a low density "void" in ...

Scientists have discovered that our galaxy may be surrounded by far more companion galaxies than previously detected. New ...

Did The universe really begin with a bang, a bounce? The theory that the universe is both possibly having endured a sudden contraction and then bounced into the expanding universe we know today is not ...

For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...

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

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A new paper suggests we may finally be able to uncover the identity of dark matter using the same technology that detects ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.

Europe's Euclid space telescope launched by SpaceX 00:21. SpaceX launched the European Space Agency's $1.5 billion Euclid space telescope Saturday, an ambitious, first-of-a-kind attempt to pin ...

Pure de Sitter space - the solution to the Einstein equations with a positive cosmological constant and no other matter sources - is, indeed, a maximally symmetric space. There exist a number of ...

Dr. Frank is an astrophysicist at the University of Rochester. Dr. Gleiser is a theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College. Not long after the James Webb Space Telescope began beaming back from ...

Although the term space was used to refer to places beyond Earth as early as 1667, in John Milton's Paradise Lost, outer space didn't enter our language until the mid-1800s when it was used in an ...