The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Explore the immense scale of the Universe in this captivating journey. From the vastness of our Solar System to the ...

A new JCAP study tests an “emulator” to reconstruct the large-scale structure of the cosmos If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the Universe: it’s just a tiny dot which, together ...

The universe is vast, beyond what we can truly comprehend. But how big is it, really? In this video, we explore the incredible size of the universe, from its observable limits to the theories that ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

Is the universe infinite, Aristotle asked in 350 BCE, “or is this an impossibility? The decision … is … all-important to our search for the truth.” The Greek ...

Space is big. That’s why we call it space. But how big is “big”? That’s relative. When an astronomer says something is nearby, they might mean it’s a few million kilometers away (if they’re talking ...

This is Part 1 of a series on large extra dimensions. I always say that one of the things that separates real science from ...

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