A new program about cosmology will debut at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium during April.

Primordial magnetic fields may help explain why measurements of the universe’s expansion do not agree. Scientists have long known that the universe is expanding, yet there is still no agreement on how ...

It may well take years to prove, but a pair of University of Miami astrophysicists could be on the verge of a cosmic ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could ...

Scientists have proposed a bold new explanation for how the universe began, suggesting the Big Bang’s rapid expansion may have emerged naturally from the laws of quantum gravity. Credit: Shutterstock ...

Douglas Adams told us the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. If only cosmology were so straightforward. Astronomers have been arguing for years about a number every bit as fundamental, ...

The solar system is moving through space over three times as fast as estimated, calling into question our best model of the ...

“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now. “And because the ...

Astronomers determined in 1929 that the universe is expanding. This was one of the most important findings in science. In 1998, two separate groups of astrophysicists discovered that the universe’s ...