In the moments before the Big Bang, our universe was a hot, dense, and extremely high-energy place. That all changed when the universe exploded 13.8 billion years ago. Rapid inflation divided a ...

Researchers in the United States have smashed two records within the realm of armor material, or material designed to protect people from projectiles. By creating the first-ever two-dimensional ...

What is the structure of our physical reality? Physicists have long imagined space and time interweaving into “space-time”, the metaphorical fabric that underlies the cosmos. But there may be ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The new DC comics multimedia franchise, the DC Universe aka the DCU, just officially started last month with the release of Creature Commandos, so ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. When you ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble’s discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought. Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the ...

Extremely precise measurements of the distance between the Earth and the Coma cluster of galaxies provide new evidence for the Universe’s faster-than-expected rate of expansion. (Photo courtesy ...

“The DCU’s a multiverse, but we’re going to be focusing on one universe from that multiverse,” Safran explained when unveiling Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters in 2023. “And if something isn ...

There are other potential explanations for the newly mapped blobs. For example, they may be made of crust-like material left over from the mantle's creation 4 billion years ago. Or they may ...

DURHAM, N.C. — Our cosmic neighborhood is revealing an uncomfortable and unexplainable truth: the universe seems to be breaking the speed limit set by our best physics models. By precisely measuring ...