On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...

This hypothesis is not new. It was given the affectionate nickname of Big Crunch, and says that the accelerated expansion of ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)-Virgo collaboration may have detected evidence of another ...

George Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the ...

Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best one," Professor Gupta said. "Maybe the universe’s biggest secrets are just ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a ...

A backward, mirror universe could explain the existence of dark matter. If an anti-universe exists, it would run backward in time, before the Big Bang. Dark matter, then, could be right-handed ...

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

The BYU College of Computational, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CMS) faculty and staff held a kick-off event to bring ...