As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the project from its early days. In this Q&A, Josh Frieman, DES co-founder and ...

The biggest objects in the universe are clusters of galaxies, such as the supercluster we live in right now - and including Abell 370, which was captured in a sprawling glittery space-scape by the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that ...

The universe is expanding, and while that fact is fascinating, it also creates a question that trips people up: if it’s growing, what exactly is it expanding into? Our brains are used to picturing ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was originally ...

Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest of the universe is on a downward trajectory, too. In new research that gauged several vital signs of ...