For nearly a century, astronomers have been striving to measure the rate at which the Universe is expanding. Two main methods ...

A team of physicists have proposed a new cosmological model – dubbed the "black hole universe" – that suggests that our ...

Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an ...

While such a background was long theorized by physicists ... copious pairs of "the most massive black holes in the entire universe" weighing as much as billions of suns, said Stephen Taylor ...

A 15-year search reveals the first evidence of a cosmic 'gravitational wave background' emitted by ancient ... the beginning of a new journey into the Universe to unveil some of its unsolved ...

The fabric of the universe is constantly rippling, according to astronomers who have discovered a background buzz of gravitational waves. These waves may be produced by supermassive black holes ...

New research has unveiled images of the universe in its infancy—a mere 388,000 after the Big Bang. The snaps of the universe were produced by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration (ACT ...

Host Regina Barber talks with two cosmologists about the cosmic microwave background, its implications for the universe's origins and the discovery that started it all. Interested in more space ...

This has given scientists their best look yet at the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) - the leftover radiation from the Big Bang which fills the entire observable universe. What looks like clouds ...

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides important answers to the question of how the first galaxies were able to ...

"I am working to identify subtle signatures—such as specific patterns in the cosmic microwave background, or in the large-scale structure of the universe—that could validate the universe/anti ...