Timeline of our universe, according to the standard model. This diagram represents 13.77 billion years of time. The far left depicts the earliest moment we can now probe, when a period of “inflation” ...

Core Research Trends This Week】Research over the past week has focused on verifying the standard model of cosmology through ...

A six-year survey covering 669 million galaxies has revealed insight into dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon driving the universe's accelerating expansion. The landmark survey paints a complicated ...

Do we need a new cosmology? Scientists have spent 60 years developing the standard model of cosmology. It’s the idea that our universe began in a Big Bang. It explains the expansion of the universe, ...

Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is perhaps understandable that we haven't yet cracked all its secrets. But there are actually some pretty basic features, ones we used to think we ...

A new study probing the structure and evolution of galaxy clusters shows good agreement with the predictions of standard cosmological models. Cosmologists have found new evidence for the standard ...

The Big Bang explains a great deal, but some of its deepest questions remain unanswered. Future discoveries could change far more of the story than many people realize.

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For centuries, cartographers have sought to map Earth’s land masses and seas to better understand the world and their place in it. Now, astrophysicists have taken a major step toward doing the same ...

What if there was no beginning of time?

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dark Energy Survey collected data from hundreds of millions of galaxies over six years to build on our understanding of the ...