Cyclic cosmology, or the big bounce, is the idea that the universe will eventually crunch back together and then go through ...

University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand how fast-moving ...

The nature of black holes has long been shrouded in mystery, but some astronomers believe the answers are a lot closer to home than expected. A fringe astronomical theory known as "black hole ...

Cosmology is a research area in astrophysics that investigates the large-scale properties, origin, composition, and dynamical evolution of the Universe as a whole. It integrates general relativity, ...

By studying galaxy clusters separated by hundreds of millions of light-years, Penn physicist Patricio Gallardo and ...

In a discovery that officials are calling "both spiritually intuitive and scientifically inevitable," a consortium of Nepali and international researchers has identified Swargadwari-literally, the ...

Two independent research teams have unveiled theoretical models that eliminate the Big Bang singularity, replacing it with a finite, well-defined early universe. One uses quadratic quantum gravity to ...

In astronomy, where distances are too vast to measure with an ordinary ruler, geometry has long been the workhorse. Now, a new study has turned that ancient mathematical language into a precision tool ...

Cosmologists have an embarrassing problem: we don’t know what shape the universe is. The cosmos has three possible geometries—positively curved like a sphere, flat like an infinite plane or negatively ...

Oh, joy! You found out you are having a boy! Now it's time to find a name. Why not consider something bold or brawny or beloved by finding a name that starts with a B? B-names haven’t yet made it to ...