Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died.

New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized ...

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, renowned for his work on the Big Bang theory, passed away at 80. His contributions to cosmic research led him to win a Nobel Prize in 2006 alongside John Mather. Smoot ...

The scientific study of cosmology, the field that focuses on the origins and evolution of the universe, is barely a century old. It has already been transformed more than once by new ideas, new ...

Mapping the Universe’s vast structure no longer requires endless supercomputer time. Effort.jl brings cosmic modeling to laptops without sacrificing accuracy.

A $4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation enables a team of scholars from USC, the University of California, ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

The "standard model" of cosmology, initially based on the Big Bang, the expansion of the universe, and the cosmic microwave background radiation, evolved into a more comprehensive "lambda-cold dark ...

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 ...

Can we survive the heat death of the universe? One day, the last star will die, galaxies will dissolve, and black holes will ...