The Universe might not exist forever. New observations by physicists indicate that it will one day reach its maximum size ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast and enigmatic bridge of gas stretching across 185,000 light-years, connecting two distant ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

AI improves the precision of cosmological parameter measurements. This AI method is significantly more cost-effective than traditional approaches. The AI analyzes both large and small-scale galaxy ...

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

Calculating the total mass of the universe is not simple, because most of the mass is invisible. In a pie chart of the contents of the universe, only 5 percent is normal matter, atoms that make up all ...

Vogelsberger grew up in Germany, and received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Mainz and his PhD from the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics ...