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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Clockwise from the upper-left panel: no dark energy, same dark energy density as in our universe, 30 and 10 times the dark energy density in our universe. Credit: Courtesy of Oscar Veenema, former ...

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

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation.