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 ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.

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 ...

Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. We have an abundance of evidence that something fishy is happening in the universe.

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

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