Anaxagoras, a visionary Greek philosopher, foresaw concepts of expanding universe and multiple worlds centuries before modern ...
A nearly century-old offshoot of Einstein’s general theory of relativity may hold promise for solving the mysteries of dark ...
The $488 mission will scan the entire sky to better understand the evolution of the universe and look for ingredients for ...
New measurements of a certain type of supernova seems to indicate that our expanding universe isn't accelerating at all, negating any need to invoke a mysterious 'dark energy' to explain supernovae ...
The universe still is expanding and cooling, leaving fossil evidence from what happened as the universe expanded. These fossils are the evidence that our universe really is evolving. Yet the theory of ...
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A groundbreaking study finds that the laws of physics treat past and future the same, raising new questions about how time ...
New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...
He deduced that if Einstein's theory were true (and there had been good evidence for it since 1919), it meant the universe must be expanding. In 1927, the year he got his PhD from MIT, LeMaitre ...
You may think that time started 13.8 billion years ago at the birth of the universe, but physicists with alternative ...
Belgian cosmologist and Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre made that connection by realizing that the theory of general relativity described an expanding universe. He recognized that space expanding in ...
Evidence supporting this theory includes the cosmic microwave background, a faint "echo" of the universe's early expansion that scientists can study in detail. While the Big Bang Theory is widely ...