Collapsing stars could form gravastars instead of black holes
A black hole is supposed to be the last word in stellar collapse: matter falls inward, spacetime caves…
A Universe Without Dark Energy? Mathematicians Challenge Standard Cosmology
A new analysis argues that the standard cosmological model may be fundamentally unstable, raising questions about whether dark…
Roman Space Telescope Launch Date: August 30
Image: NASA. The Roman Space Telescope launch date now has a firm spot on NASA’s calendar. The agency…
NASA’s $4 Billion Roman Space Telescope Heads To Florida For Launch
WFIRST, shown here in an artist’s rendering, will carry a Wide Field Instrument to provide astronomers with Hubble-quality…
The Force That Holds Atoms Together May Be Driving the Universe Apart
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The universe is expanding faster every second, and physicists…
Is Dark Energy Unnecessary? Mathematicians Challenge Standard Cosmological Model of Universe
Mathematicians from University College London and the University of California, Davis, have published a mathematical proof that the…
Could a cosmic uncertainty principle help explain dark matter?
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Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
The Universe may have begun inside a black hole, not a Big Bang
For nearly a century, modern cosmology has treated the Big Bang as the opening moment of everything, the…
Supernovae help astronomers measure how the Universe expands over time
Astronomers have leaned on Type Ia supernovae for decades because these stellar explosions act like mile markers across…
Scientists Complete Largest 3D Map of the Universe to Probe Dark Energy
A thin slice of the map produced by the DESI five-year survey shows galaxies and quasars above and…