Read today's inspirational quote of the day by Stephen Hawking. Understand its meaning, learn about Hawking’s life and fame, ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

Nearly 100 years after it was first theorised, a scientist may have captured an image of dark matter for the first time.

However, not everybody agrees with this widely accepted scientific consensus. In a controversial new paper, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team led by ...

The expansion rate of the universe may be slowing down, rather than accelerating at an ever-growing rate, a potentially groundbreaking new study has hinted. The suggestion challenges both the 2011 ...

Evidence now suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not speed up. The findings imply dark energy is weakening, marking a possible revolution in cosmology. A groundbreaking new study ...

For a fraction of a second after the big bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, most physicists believe, the newborn universe dramatically ballooned in size, jumping from being smaller than a proton to ...

For a fraction of a second after the big bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, most physicists believe, the newborn universe dramatically ballooned in size, jumping from being smaller than a proton to ...