Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing ...

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known objects in the universe. The study may help scientists test theories about how ...

Columbia professors contributed to new research that seeks to understand an anomaly that has puzzled particle physics for ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Published in 1915, and already widely accepted worldwide by ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. About a century ago, scientists were struggling to ...