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The universe is full of surprises, and Saul Perlmutter knows that better than most. A professor of physics at UC Berkeley and a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Perlmutter ...

Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in understanding the Universe’s earliest moments, measuring the amount of ...

Astronomers have proposed a new theory to suggest why our universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. That our universe is expanding is in wide agreement, though how exactly that process happens is ...

Few pursuits in human history match the raw ambition of trying to understand the cosmos. From ancient stargazers etching constellations onto cave walls to physicists detecting ripples in the fabric of ...

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. This was the ...

How is the expansion of our universe expanding? Expert Paul Sutter breaks down dark energy and the idea behind baby universes. The expansion of our universe is accelerating. Perhaps it’s some ...

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 ...

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. Astronomers know that the universe is being pushed apart at an ...

Physicists including Robert H. Dickle and Fred Hoyle have argued that we are living in a universe that is perfectly fine-tuned for life. Following the anthropic principle, they claimed that the only ...

NASA’s $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, equipped with a 300-megapixel camera sighted through a refurbished spy mirror, launched Sunday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission ...

Our universe appears flat—but this observation still leaves plenty of options for its true shape. In fact, our cosmos could resemble a donut What shape is the universe? This question is far more ...