However, the diameter of the observable universe is said to be over 900 billion light-years, right? Oh yes, the Beijing ...

Astronomers use many methods to determine this number, including gravitational lensing, the universe’s expansion rate, and ...

In a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journalletters, scientists confirmed something both exhilarating and unsettling: the universe is expanding in a way that defies our most trusted models ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s development, known as the Cosmic Dawn.

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

The post Radio Antennae Could Soon Use Early Signals From Cosmic Dawn To Explain How The Universe Was Formed first on TwistedSifter. Somewhere between 50 to 1 billion years after the Big Bang, our ...

So what does the edge of the universe look like? At first, I thought it might be like Earth’s atmosphere, where outside is just vacuum. But then I learned it’s not like that a ...