According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

Our journey to comprehend the Universe’s edge begins with the concept of the observable Universe. This term refers to the portion of the cosmos that we can theoretically detect from Earth.

Astronomers setting their sights halfway across the observable universe recently identified the largest amount of individual stars ever detected so far away – a feat once considered near-impossible.

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more differences in temperature anywhere, which means thermodynamics shuts down, ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the existence of mirror asymmetries in our universe by studying the handedness of the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers with John Hopkins University have created an interactive map of the ...

Two Indian physicists have theoretically proposed a path-breaking idea which could fundamentally change the current view ...