This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed like a contradiction in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted ...

Calculating the total mass of the universe is not simple, because most of the mass is invisible. In a pie chart of the contents of the universe, only 5 percent is normal matter, atoms that make up all ...