Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Astronomers pinpointed BiRD near the extensively studied quasar J1030+0524, which resides at a distance of about 12.5 billion ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

The Universe may not have begun with a Big Bang, but instead with a Big Bounce, according to a new theory about how the Universe expands ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

Keio University astronomers measured the universe’s temperature 7 billion years ago at 5.13 K using ALMA data, which ...

No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...