The Kardashev Scale, first introduced by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, is a way of measuring how advanced a ...

The Universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say. The most distant light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us. This marks the edge ...

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A compelling new theory of the creation of our universe suggests that it may ...

Our universe appears flat—but this observation still leaves plenty of options for its true shape. In fact, our cosmos could ...

Join us on a captivating adventure through the vastness of the cosmos as we traverse the sizes and scales of what lies around us in space! From tiny dust particles that slowly swirl together under 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 ...

A new study published in Nature may have solved one of astrophysics’ most persistent mysteries: how the universe creates enormous, organized magnetic fields from violent turbulence. Using some of the ...

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 ...

image: Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba carried out simulations of large-scale structure formation in the Universe that accurately reproduce the dynamics of ghost-like particles called ...