The ‘inflationary’ model of cosmology explains many large-scale features of the Universe as the result of a primordial period ...

To truly understand our place in the universe, we must first comprehend the concept of scale. It is only through understanding the relative sizes of the entities around us that we can appreciate the ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using ...

“The cosmos is also within us, we're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” - Carl Sagan Compared to the Sun, how big is the Earth? What is a scale model and how does it help ...

IN ARIZONA, AT Kitt Peak National Observatory, a telescope has spent three years building a three-dimensional map of the heavens. In examining the light from tens of millions of galaxies, the Dark ...

Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in ...

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

TIMHi, I'm Tim Peake. I'm an astronaut based here at the European Space Agency in Germany, and from December 2015, to June 2016, I spent six months orbiting Earth on the International Space Station.