If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Combining different pieces from Big Bang cosmology could help explain an issue we have today. The Hubble constant, the speed of expansion of our universe, is not observed with consistency. These ...

Our common understanding of the universe tells us that all matter and energy were created at the beginning of time during a period of rapid inflation called the Big Bang. However, in 2023, Katherine ...

Our universe may have been born in a gravitational crunch that formed a very massive black hole—followed by a bounce inside it. The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe—a ...

Smoot is best known for his Nobel prize winning research that confirmed the Big Bang Theory, leading a team that developed ...

The Big Bang theory is supported by the observed expansion of the universe and the cosmic microwave background radiation. The universe's early moments involved a hot, dense state with the formation of ...

Enrique Gaztanaga receives funding from the Spanish Plan Nacional (PGC2018-102021-B-100) and Maria de Maeztu (CEX2020-001058-M) grants. Enrique Gaztanaga is also a Professor at the Institute of Space ...