WUWM astronomy contributor Jean Creighton discusses cosmology ahead of "Birth of the Universe" at UWM's Manfred Olson ...

The universe has left you a gift to decipher, January. Those born in January fall under stoic Capricorn or logical Aquarius, so most January-born may struggle to understand more abstract messages from ...

Why does the Universe exist instead of having been annihilated shortly after its birth? This fundamental question in physics finds new illumination thanks to an unprecedented collaboration between two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How ...

Area of focus: Cosmology: decoding the secrets of the origin of the universe and how it has changed over time Johanna Nagy hopes to “see” the birth of the universe by mapping the fossil light that ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

At temperatures below the depths of space just a few degrees above absolute zero researchers have replicated the universe’s first molecule, and the findings have turned conventional understanding of ...

Dark matter, the invisible substance that shapes the Universe, may have had a far more dramatic beginning than scientists once believed.

How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense explosions destroy everything? – Tristan S., age 8, Newark, Delaware Pretend you're a perfectly flat chess piece in a game of ...