Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that powers the expansion of the universe, may undergo periodic 'violent transitions' ...

According to an alternative model of how intelligent life emerges on planets like Earth, the existence of aliens—and human ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor at Pennsylvania State University. “We’re an expected or predictable outcome ...

When we gaze up at the night sky, it’s hard not to wonder about the vastness of the universe and its origins. The universe, ...

JWST images reveal galaxy rotation patterns that challenge the Big Bang model. Could the universe be spinning?

"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they ...

These assumptions underlie the Standard Model of Cosmology, the theoretical framework used to explain the origin, evolution, and current state of the Universe. It is currently the most robust and ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could make sense of that. Ultra-self-interacting dark matter clumped into ...

A groundbreaking new study proposes that black holes, which absorb everything into an inescapable void, may eventually transition into “white holes” that eject matter and energy into the cosmos.

"When we do observational measurements to understand which cosmological model describes our universe, we generally make the well-justified assumption that the universe is approximately homogeneous ...

These assumptions underlie the Standard Model of Cosmology, the theoretical framework used to explain the origin, evolution, and current state of the universe. It is currently the most robust and ...