Dark matter may not have needed a calm, cold start to help build the universe. That is the challenge raised by new work from researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université ...

The expansion of the universe is still accelerating under the influence of dark energy, despite recent claims to the contrary.

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

Researchers confirm the universe's expansion is still accelerating, challenging previous claims of dark energy weakening and halting this growth.

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel ...

For the last few decades, researchers have been studying what the universe looked like in its first seconds. It is generally accepted that the universe expanded exponentially in the first fraction of ...

Scientists report evidence that the universe was born in less than the blink of an eye, expanding instantly from sub-microscopic size to astronomical proportions. The conclusion comes from data ...

Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what ...

The universe might not be expanding as we thought, study says - Until now, we have believed that the universe’s expansion is speeding up ...

When Andreas Albrecht was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he was looking for an advisor in particle physics ...