This strange shift in the cosmos’ early disposition is a crucial clue to how the very first galaxies burst into being, ...

A new recipe of "quadratic gravity" could help to better define the picture of the Big Bang and the singularity that existed ...

In a stunning new twist to the story of our cosmos, scientists say the universe may not expand forever. Instead, it could collapse in a "big crunch" — and they've even estimated when it might happen.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists have recently used an updated understanding of the math of our universe to theorize that the universe will end in a crunch rather than ...

Observations don’t match the predictions of the standard model—and it’s not just a fluke.

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when all of space, time, and energy were born from a single infinitely dense ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than ...

NASA unveiled a new telescope on Tuesday to scan vast swaths of the universe for planets outside our solar system and probe ...