Astronomers have pushed the boundary of the observable universe to a point just 280 million years after the Big Bang, ...

Scientists are relatively certain that the observable universe is relatively flat, but in terms of the cosmos’s global topography, uncertainty reigns. A new study from an international scientific ...

WASHINGTON — Using data from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters. The cause, they suggest, is the ...

This video explores what scientists mean when they talk about the edge of the observable universe. Using real observations and established physics, it explains why space appears black beyond a certain ...

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 ...

Imagine being able to gaze at the very edge of the observable universe and witness a dazzling array of galaxies. NASA has now made this extraordinary experience possible by releasing an expansive map ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Cosmic voids that stretch across millions even billions of ...

The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Astronomers came to the surprising ...

Many astronomers have wondered where the center of the universe is. If the Big Bang created the entire observable universe, then it stands to reason that the event had a point of origin. As it turns ...