If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...

The universe is generally referred to as infinite, unknown, and limitless. With over 2 trillion galaxies and millions of stars and planets, the universe is so enormous that it stretches the boundaries ...

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the Universe: it’s just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized explosion but a simultaneous expansion of space everywhere. Galaxies aren't ...

Scientists propose that gravitational waves shaped the universe. Their model challenges inflation theory. How exactly did the ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

An international research collaboration has used advanced computer simulations to investigate how faint radio signals from ...

No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense ...

It will be a view unlike any other — completely invisible, exceptionally quiet and utterly transformative. Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes ...