The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

In a study published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), which is a part of The University of Alabama ...

A new theory challenges the standard model of cosmology, arguing that dark matter and dark energy are not the forces behind ...

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

Astrophysicists have long suspected that some dark matter halos might exist without forming stars, but no one knew the exact mass limit where this transition occurs. A computational astrophysicist has ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that powers the expansion of the universe, may undergo periodic 'violent transitions' that reverse the growth of the cosmos, a new pre-print study hints.

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's ...

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