Physicists have taken the Universe’s temperature, revealing the searing trillion-degree heat of the Big Bang’s first plasma.

For nearly three decades, astronomers have interpreted the faint luminosity of certain distant explosive stars as a sign of ...

For almost a century, we have known that the universe is expanding. For several decades, evidence has suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Crucial to those estimates were the ...

By observing the brightness of distant dying stars, astronomers have long come to believe that the expansion of the universe ...

Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the ...

As if dark energy weren't already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may not be ...

Evidence now suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not speed up. The findings imply dark energy is weakening ...

The plot represents the new model with the x-axis and the y-axis showing the minimum sizes of collapsing and expanding regions that can impact cosmological measurements. The contours are independent ...

On transmuting Boyle's law to Darwin's revolution / Stephen Jay Gould -- The evolution of cellular development / Lewis Wolpert -- The evolution of guns and germs / Jared Diamond -- The evolution of ...