On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...

George Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to deliver awe-inspiring views of the cosmos and the art world has taken ...

A backward, mirror universe could explain the existence of dark matter. If an anti-universe exists, it would run backward in time, before the Big Bang. Dark matter, then, could be right-handed ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized ...

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe.

Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best one," Professor Gupta said. "Maybe the universe’s biggest secrets are just ...

This hypothesis is not new. It was given the affectionate nickname of Big Crunch, and says that the accelerated expansion of ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The Flagship 2 simulation, developed using an algorithm by University of Zurich astrophysicist Joachim Stadel, is the largest ...

Three new majors were announced the first week of September in an open house on BYU campus. The new majors include data science, applied physics: data science and data science: machine learning. With ...