The universe may be vast, but researchers have multiple points of evidence that reveal its shape. White House tells Supreme ...

The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.

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This blog post was inspired by a conversation with my father many years ago, under a canopy of stars on a family camping trip. He spoke about the vastness of the universe, igniting a spark in me that ...

Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...

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The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the universe created by a mysterious substance known as dark matter. "Analyzing ...

Scientists are peering into the universe's mysterious Cosmic Dawn using the faint whispers of hydrogen radio waves emitted over 13 billion years ago. These signals, particularly the elusive ...

"We're really pushing the boundaries of what current technology can detect." A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...