The universe follows predictable rules, behaving classically according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity. So, what ...

A team of physicists have proposed a new cosmological model – dubbed the "black hole universe" – that suggests that our universe did not begin at the Big Bang. For a long time the universe was assumed ...

Voids are not exactly empty (actually, the missing matter of the universe is spread there), and lonely galaxies and small groups might end up in one of those. But those galaxies would be pulled out of ...

“This new evidence is suggesting that our Standard Model of the universe is holding up,” said Dr. Wendy Freedman, who is a John & Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at ...

The standard model says that, after the Big Bang set the universe’s expansion in motion, the gravitational attraction between atoms first led to the formation of stars and galaxies, while also ...

Our best model of the universe is called lambda-cold dark matter (LCDM), which splits the cosmos into three parts: the matter we can see, the matter we can’t see that still has a gravitational ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation.