The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study ...

The rapid acceleration of the universe’s expansion continues to challenge our understanding of fundamental physics. Why the ...

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe's biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of ...

Throughout the existence of life on Earth, we have always been plagued with the question — are we alone? Regardless of humanity’s contrasting beliefs, there has always existed the undeniable fact that ...

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The universe follows strict rules, until observations suggest something doesn’t quite add up. Galaxy rotation, expansion ...

The prevailing Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model, based on the Big Bang and subsequent inflation, faces challenges including the inability to explain the universe's homogeneity and the singularity ...

The Big Bang theory has provided the most widely accepted basis of our understanding of the universe since it was first proposed by Georges Lemaitre in 1927. In short, it posits that all the matter in ...

Astronomers have finally confirmed a long‑suspected cosmic oddity, a massive clump of gas and dark matter that looks like a ...

For a half-century, most astrophysicists have accepted the notion that the universe began in a "Big Bang," an unimaginably powerful event in which all the matter and energy in the cosmos expanded ...