After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. Everything on Earth, in our solar system, our galaxy, and beyond is contained within ...

Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

The size of the universe depends on its shape, with possibilities ranging from finite and spherical to flat or even infinite.

For measuring curvature of 3D (hyper) surface we need solid angles instead of plane angles. General relativity (GR), which explains events on the greatest cosmological scale, and quantum mechanics (QM ...

The universe's expansion means its size is bigger than its age suggests. The universe's expansion doesn't have a speed limit like objects within it. Distant galaxies move away from us as space itself ...

Doesn’t seem like much of a brainteaser, does it? Everyone knows the sky darkens at night because the sun sets … or more accurately, because our part of planet Earth rotates away from the sun, and ...

Quinnipiac University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands ...

When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands into the baking pan. Any chocolate chips or blueberries in the muffin ...