The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

This breathtaking clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel-Prize winner’s theory about how quantum physics works in your brain.

“For the last 20 years, people believed that the cosmological constant is positive, and the universe will expand forever,” says Tye, a professor emeritus at Cornell. A positive constant acts like a ...

A team of researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope has produced the most detailed map of dark matter to date.

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent and role in shaping the universe.

Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

The universe is filled with explosions, collisions, and violent events. But one phenomenon releases more energy than anything else known. In just moments, it can outshine entire galaxies and reshape ...