The universe may be vast, but researchers have multiple points of evidence that reveal its shape.

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

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

There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from? Finding out if they are, in fact, constant is the key to ...

As one of the most influential scholars of the cosmos, Wendy Freedman has made significant contributions to our understanding of the universe's growth and shape.

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

A University of Queensland researcher has developed a new mathematical model to explain the evolution of the universe which, for the first time, includes collapsing regions of matter and expanding ...

Stakes come no higher than in Particle Fever, a dazzling, dizzying documentary about nothing less than whether we exist in a coherent universe of ordered, even beautiful laws — or whether, as ...