The Big Bang, the event that birthed the universe, took place 13.7 billion years ago. However, pinpointing where it occurred is not straightforward. Can...
Penrose’s ideas still cause controversy in the scientific community. But who knows, what if amazing artifacts or traces of superintelligence from the distant past...
American scientists, using mathematical tools, described the inhomogeneities of the cosmic relic radiation that arose immediately after the origin of the Universe. The authors...
Astronomers have recorded the most powerful burst of energy in the universe since the Big Bang. Some experts compare the discovery in importance with the...
Today our middle-aged Universe looks eerily smooth. Too smooth, in fact. While a rapid growth spurt in space-time would explain what we see, science...
Astronomers have finally found the last of the missing universe. It’s been hiding since the mid-1990s, when researchers decided to inventory all the “ordinary”...
The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The...
New evidence, based on detailed measurements of the size and brightness of hundreds of galaxies, indicates that the Universe is not expanding after all,...
Stuart Clark The Guardian Scientists have promised a groundbreaking announcement pertaining to the birth of the universe. There is intense speculation among cosmologists that...
An international team led by astronomers from Kyoto University, the University of Tokyo and the University of Oxford has released its first version of...
Could both gravity and the Big Bang be an illusion? In January 2010, Erik Verlinde, professor of Theoretical Physics and world-renowned string theorist, caused...
Astronomers today are puzzled by a star that by conventional wisdom should not exist. Scientists who have studied the star’s elemental composition discovered a...