A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study ...

DESI observations suggest black holes may generate dark energy by consuming stellar matter. The idea resolves puzzles about ...

For decades, the prevailing cosmological model has placed dark matter and dark energy at the center of our understanding of the universe’s structure and evolution. These invisible components were ...

To astronomers in the 1990s, these three facts were self-evident: The universe is expanding; all the matter in the universe ...

Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today.

A University of Queensland researcher has developed a new mathematical model to explain the evolution of the universe which, for the first time, includes collapsing regions of matter and expanding ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed just 500 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only about 3 ...