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 ...

For centuries, humanity has pondered the ultimate fate of the universe. From theories of infinite expansion to the concept of ...

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2022, has discovered something that may shatter current theories about the universe's early development.

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe, is ...

For more than two decades, the standard model of cosmology has stood as a reliable guide to the universe. Known as Lambda Cold Dark Matter, or ΛCDM, it weaves together dark energy, dark matter, and ...

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 ...

It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the dramatic explosion of a particular kind of white dwarf. In 1998, they announced ...