A scientist has claimed the place we cannot see beyond the observable universe is where heaven could be located. This place ...

For some reason the universe is full of stars, galaxies, and life. But it didn’t have to be this way. The Biggest Questions is a mini-series that explores how technology is helping probe some of the ...

This image shows a slice of the matter distribution in the Universe as simulated by the GiggleZ complement to the WiggleZ survey. There are many cosmic structures that seem to repeat on progressively ...

From the largest cosmic scales down to the smallest subatomic ones, the same laws of physics define the entire Universe. The building blocks from which life arose on Earth weren't something that the ...

On 1 January 1925, US astronomer Henry Norris Russell made a startling announcement to the American Astronomical Society in Washington DC: observations by fellow astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that ...

Astronomers have known for decades that the universe is expanding. When they use telescopes to observe faraway galaxies, they see that these galaxies are moving away from Earth. To astronomers, the ...

The Universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say. The most distant light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us. This marks the edge ...