Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be driving ...

A major new analysis challenges recent claims that the universe's expansion is slowing, finding that the evidence for cosmic acceleration remains strong. The findings preserve the leading role of dark ...

A difference of a few kilometers per second might not sound like much. In cosmology, it has become one of the field’s most stubborn problems. An international team of astronomers has now delivered one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A section of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a star-forming region composed of gas, dust, and young stars, in this image obtained by the ...

For the last few decades, researchers have been studying what the universe looked like in its first seconds. It is generally accepted that the universe expanded exponentially in the first fraction of ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern physics. Because it cannot be fully answered using our current physical ...

Scientists report evidence that the universe was born in less than the blink of an eye, expanding instantly from sub-microscopic size to astronomical proportions. The conclusion comes from data ...

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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. One of the fundamental ideas of cosmology is that everything looks the same in all directions if you look over large enough distances. A new study ...