The Universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say. The most distant light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us. This marks the edge ...

Imagine shrinking Earth to the size of a small ball to reveal just how vast the Universe is. If it were 12 centimeters wide, Jupiter would stretch over a meter across beside it. But the Sun would be ...

Physicists have long assumed that the universe is uniform at very large scales, but evidence is emerging this is wrong and suggests a way to resolve some of the biggest cosmological mysteries ...

Our universe appears flat—but this observation still leaves plenty of options for its true shape. In fact, our cosmos could ...

Join us on a captivating adventure through the vastness of the cosmos as we traverse the sizes and scales of what lies around us in space! From tiny dust particles that slowly swirl together under the ...

We live in a golden age for learning about the universe. Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest visible scales. Likewise, our most powerful ...

A new theory from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) suggests that time, not space-time, may be the true foundation of reality. The idea is that time itself has three dimensions, while space is ...

Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba present computer simulations that capture the complex dynamics of elusive neutrinos left over from the Big Bang Current simulations of cosmic structure ...

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...