A provocative new cosmological model suggests the Universe could be 26.7 billion years old and might not need dark matter or ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. What is the universe expanding into if it’s ...

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 ...

The universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous—and highly debated—results had shown: The universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...

Absolute zero is the coldest limit of ordinary temperature, where a system occupies its lowest available energy state. Gas ...

A major international effort has produced an ultra-precise measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate, confirming it’s faster than early-Universe models predict. By linking multiple ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports simulates particle creation in an expanding universe using IBM quantum computers, demonstrating the digital quantum simulation of quantum field theory for ...

Learn how the existence of dark energy is being challenged due to new evidence that the expanding universe is actually "lumpy". The enigmatic idea of dark energy has consistently been referenced to ...

When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands into the baking pan. Any chocolate chips or blueberries in the muffin ...