The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could boost the aging probe’s impressive lifespan.

Black holes formed before the Big Bang may still exist as cosmic fossils, offering new clues about dark matter and the origin ...

A new recipe of "quadratic gravity" could help to better define the picture of the Big Bang and the singularity that existed ...

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; another, time. Thirdly, it began the conditions and processes that eventually ...