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 ...

Our humble blue planet came into being with the Big Bang — the sudden expansion of the universe outwards. Now, according to astrophysicists and cosmologists, Earth and all of its celestial siblings ...

The universe is expanding, and while that fact is fascinating, it also creates a question that trips people up: if it’s growing, what exactly is it expanding into? Our brains are used to picturing ...

A University of Queensland researcher has developed a new mathematical model to explain the evolution of the universe which, for the first time, includes collapsing regions of matter and expanding ...

IT IS ONE of the biggest mysteries in cosmology—and getting bigger all the time. Ever since Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, published observations of distant galaxies in 1929, scientists have ...