Raised in the Lutheran church, Tycho was led to believe that the earth was the center of the universe, but his carefully ...

Learn about the life and scientific contributions of Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century astronomer known for his laws of ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

A unique dataset of Type Ia Supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of the Universe.

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

If scientists confirm an anisotropic expansion, it would challenge the assumption that the universe has no preferred directions.

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

With that in mind, have you considered that our entire universe may actually be suspended in a "false vacuum," or in a state of faux-stability, and is merely waiting to collapse into a more stable ...

Matter is made up of small particles called atoms. Atoms can exist on their own or together as molecules. Atoms are very small and around 100,000,000 of them end to end would measure 1 centimetre ...

Frontier, the second fastest supercomputer in the world, used dark matter and the movement of gas and plasma rather than just ...

Dark Energy 'Doesn't Exist' So Can't Be Pushing 'Lumpy' Universe Apart Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers ...