The largest digital camera ever built is beginning to capture images of unseen corners of the universe in finer detail ...

Our universe appears flat—but this observation still leaves plenty of options for its true shape. In fact, our cosmos could resemble a donut What shape is the universe? This question is far more ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), capturing the ...

Many people wonder: if the universe is expanding, is there a point in space that serves as the “centre”? It seems intuitive to ask, how can something expand if there’s no specific starting point? The ...

A major international effort has produced an ultra-precise measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate, confirming it’s faster than early-Universe models predict. By linking multiple ...

Two recent studies by Professor Stefano Profumo at the University of California, Santa Cruz, propose theories that attempt to answer one of the most fundamental open questions in modern physics: What ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What shape is the universe? This question is far more intriguing and truly unresolved than any debate over the shape of our planet ...