S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets ...

Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would have given us the ...

Recent studies indicate that the universe may be decaying or expanding more rapidly than expected, raising questions about ...

The Big Bang,the event that gave birth to our universe,is a theory that continues to fascinate and bewilder scientists and ...

Our understanding of the universe begins with the Big Bang, a moment in time where the universe began expanding into what we ...

The Big Bang marks the origin of everything,the birth of the universe 13.8 billion years ago. But what exactly happened at ...

Researchers aim to study the universe’s 'Dark Ages' using a quiet orbit around the Moon. Their small satellite will search ...

Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...

The Earth might be near the center of a vast low-density void in space, which could explain one of the cosmos's greatest ...

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a revolutionary possibility: Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be nestled ...

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is the newest spin-off in the growing The Big Bang Theory universe, and it focuses on Stuart, the owner of the comic book shop.

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...