The universe is big, and it's getting bigger. To study dark energy, the mysterious force behind the accelerating expansion of our universe, scientists are using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...

Having trouble understanding the sub-atomic experimental physics at work at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland? • Thinking of it in terms of a recipe might help. • 1. Take two lead atoms and ...

IDC has just released estimates that this year, the Digital Universe — meaning every electronically stored piece of data or file out there — will reach 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes, this ...

We have bad news for any cosmologists out there: you have a lot of work ahead of you. There's long been a discrepancy between the calculated, theoretical rate at which the universe ought to be ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released the first batch of data from the groundbreaking Euclid space telescope, which was built to study the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy ...

Mapping the Universe’s vast structure no longer requires endless supercomputer time. Effort.jl brings cosmic modeling to laptops without sacrificing accuracy.

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The nearly 30-year-old Hubble Space telescope continues to deliver outstanding data to ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Jeffrey Cooke, Professor, Centre for Astrophysics and ...