Scientists propose that gravitational waves shaped the universe. Their model challenges inflation theory. How exactly did the universe start, and how did these processes determine its formation and ...

Astronomers have long relied on supercomputers to simulate the immense structure of the Universe, but a new tool called ...

BY RUBY DIAZ Tiger Media Network On Tuesday, Professor and Cosmologist Bharat Ratra from Kansas State University hosted a seminar on cosmology for physics students at Fort Hays State. Ratra said ...

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it ...

Mapping the Universe’s vast structure no longer requires endless supercomputer time. Effort.jl brings cosmic modeling to ...

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the universe: it's just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number ...

A $4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation enables a team of scholars from USC, the University of California, ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the ...

An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...

Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology ...

The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends. Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists?