A University of Queensland researcher has developed a new mathematical model to explain the evolution of the universe which, ...

How does Pluto’s distance help us understand the size of the universe To understand just how enormous space is, let's begin with an analogy that's close to home — a road trip. If you could ...

Scientists have recreated the universe’s first molecules in a lab, offering new insights into the early cosmos and how it began to evolve.

In fact, it's too big. The only known way to create black holes is through the deaths of massive stars. When big stars die, they leave behind black holes up to a few dozen times the mass of the sun.

Forget one Big Bang — try many. A bold new theory pokes holes in the popular origin story, suggesting the universe evolves through a series of lightning-fast bursts, rewriting what we know about ...

The Big Wheel’s stellar disk is about 30 kiloparsecs in diameter, or nearly 98,000 light-years across. For reference, the Milky Way’s diameter is about 100,000 light-years, about the same size ...

Previous observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile suggested that water existed about 780 million years after the Big Bang, when the young universe was ...