The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

By about t + 370,000 years, neutral hydrogen formation had wound itself down, leaving the Universe transparent for the first ...

Over hundreds of millions of years, this made the universe transparent to light, allowing us to see across vast distances and far back in time ever since. But the cause of this transformation ...

If you thought the cosmic web was tangled enough, think again. A team of astrophysicists recently used gamma-ray bursts—those spectacular, enigmatic explosions of energy from the farthest ...

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Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The prevailing consensus in astrophysics is that the universe has spent the past 13-or-so billion years expanding outward in all ...

Whether we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world is a much-debated theory, challenging previous thinking about the universe and our existence. The possibility that the entire universe ...

A new study suggests the universe may rotate -- just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest puzzles. A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...

Researchers suggest the universe's background radiation has been overestimated, potentially challenging the standard model of ...