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

The observable universe is a ball-shaped region of the universe comprising all matter that can be observed from Earth or its space-based telescopes and exploratory probes at the present time, because ...

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 ...

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

Compared with the first possibility, the closed universe, expansions in the past would have to have been slower to get the presently observed separations between galaxies. And it would mean that a ...

Space exploration also helps us understand the building blocks of the universe by studying cosmic phenomena like black holes, ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.