Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of space with lots of specks of light indicating galaxies and a few streaks representing lensed light. There is no denying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early universe: radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot ...

A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...

New Theory Says the Universe Might Have Started Inside a Black Hole ...

According to big bang theory, for the first 10 - 43 seconds of the universe's life, all the forces of nature existed as one superforce. The universe was all energy, no matter. Physicists call this ...

When Voyager 1 finally crossed the “termination shock” at the edge of interstellar space in December 2004, space physicists anticipated the long-sought discovery of the source of anomalous cosmic rays ...

In the early 2000s, it seemed that cosmologists had solved the largest and most complex puzzle of all: how the universe works. “There was this amazing moment when all of a sudden, all the pieces in ...

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a revolutionary possibility: Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be nestled ...

Cosmic voids are different. These vast expanses contain very little matter. In such places, the vacuum of space-time itself becomes the dominant component. If you were positioned at the center of a ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University have found a young galaxy cluster that appears far hotter than theory allows. The international team, working with the ...