A new phase of the space race is unfolding far above Earth, but its effects may not stay there. Satellite launches have increased sharply recently, la.

We could go out with a crunch, and not a bang. Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean researchers suggests that dark ...

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos is heading toward a dramatic reversal: after ...

Astronomers have spotted what may be one of the universe’s earliest barred spiral galaxies — a striking cosmic structure forming just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, COSMOS-74706, ...

“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 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The University of Arizona has opened a new science discovery center on their campus to encourage kids in the area to be more interested in sciences that are studied in our state ...

An astrophysicist explains what wormholes are and how these theoretical space-time tunnels have popped up in the solutions to a set of decadesold equations.

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

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This post was updated Nov. 11 at 11:44 p.m. UCLA’s Court of Sciences teemed with activity Sunday as about 12,000 people attended the university’s largest annual science fair. Exploring Your Universe, ...