Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Measurements of the distance to the Coma Cluster of galaxies find that it is millions of light years closer than the standard ...

Penzias and Wilson discover Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, supporting the Big Bang theory. Fr. Hincks now uses ACT ...

With this new insight into gravity, physicists at last were able to make actual predictions about the universe’s behavior, turning cosmology ... arose today’s big bang. Many were appalled ...

The Big Bang theory is our general picture of the ... A full evaluation of the ability of those galaxies to "break" cosmology would have to wait for a more precise measurement of their redshift ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

The Universe is expanding faster than ever, and recent findings fuel the ongoing debate among cosmologists. For decades, ...

New research confirms the Universe is expanding faster than theoretical models predict, intensifying the Hubble tension.

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...