Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our understanding of how the cosmos is built.

A new theory suggests our universe and a time-reversed twin could emerge together ... transition to the universe we know, with a finite scale factor from the very beginning.

The vastness of the cosmos hides more than distant stars—it conceals the very forces that shape reality. Astronomers have ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

One is to look at bright objects, like supernovae, to see how fast they’ve been moving over time and thus measure the history of the expansion of the universe. The other approach is to look at ...

The findings are published in the journal Universe. Credit ... GRBs means that only parts of any large-scale structures can be observed at any given time. The key here is to conduct integrated ...