The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

Voids are not exactly empty (actually, the missing matter of the universe is spread there), and lonely galaxies and small ...

Space ice” contains tiny crystals and is not, as previously assumed, a completely disordered material like liquid water, ...

Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

But, considering a multiverse wherein each universe contains a different dark energy density—observed by one intelligent observer—the team found that 99.5 percent of these universes boasted a ...

We found that 99.5% of them would experience a larger dark energy density than observed in our universe. In other words, it ...

A controversial theory suggests the observable universe is the result of matter rebounding after the collapse of a black hole ...

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

Parallel universes with additional dark energy could have more stars than our universe, which increases the chance of alien life developing. (This image shows a stellar nursery in the Large ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...