When we go backwards in time through the history of the cosmos, the distances and volumes shrink, while the average energy ...

The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe began as a hot, dense point, expanding into the cosmos we observe today.

Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest visible scales. Likewise, ...

Hubble's recent capture, MCG+05-31-045 in the Coma cluster, illustrates the evolution of galaxies under extreme gravitational forces. This interaction, typical for dense galaxy clusters, demonstrates ...

If true, this theory could explain how all of the matter in our universe was created.

"This discovery presents a challenge: our cosmic surveys may not yet be large enough to map the full extent of these immense basins," study co-author Ehsan Kourkchi, an astronomer at the ...

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.

"This is just 1% of the map, and yet it is full of a variety of sources that will help scientists discover new ways to describe the universe." The Euclid Space Telescope has revealed the "first ...

The Empathy Singularity: An Emotional Evolution Building on the idea that emotional intelligence could become humanity’s defining edge, I propose a speculative concept: The Empathy Singularity.

One thing that can be said about the now-50-year-old “NOVA”: It has never been very funny. But the science program’s introduction to “Decoding the Universe: Quantum” is certainly amusing ...