The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent and role in shaping the universe.

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don't know, according to Ulf Danielsson, professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. Besides doing ...

Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

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"Birth of the Universe" at Manfred Olson Planetarium will explore clues that astronomers have used to understand the evolution of the universe. Scientists trace the origins of the cosmos to the Big ...

The universe, encompassing all space, time, matter, and energy, originated approximately 14 billion years ago with a quick expansion called the Big Bang. Since that moment, it has evolved continuously ...