Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

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Cosmologists in the 1960s thought they had the end of the universe worked out – then an unknown PhD student called Beatrice Hill Tinsley upended it all ...

MOST people have probably heard that the universe is expanding. Certainly New Scientist readers have, because I keep writing about it in this column. It is perhaps easy to accept the statement ...

How cosmic stasis may drastically rewrite the history of the universe Unexpected epochs of stillness that punctuate the cosmic timeline could offer a natural explanation for dark matter and many ...

Physics The universe could vanish at any moment – why hasn’t it? A cataclysmic quantum fluctuation could wipe out everything at any moment.

Astronomers are on the hunt for magnetic fields in our galaxy that were born in the very early universe, because they could provide a new way to study the big bang. “We’re not solving the ...

The astrophysicist who may be about to discover how the universe began Astronomer Jo Dunkley is planning to use the Simons Observatory to snare evidence for inflation, the theory that the universe ...

Analysis and Space Proxima b: 7 big questions about the new planet next door By Jacob Aron 25 August 2016 Proxima b: a discovery for the history books ESO/L.Calçada/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org) ...

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A new perspective on the fabric of reality Much of the understanding we have of the make-up of our universe comes from probing matter at smaller and smaller scales.

The development of cosmic structure – the huge strands of galaxies and caverns of emptiness that make up our universe – seems to be slowing down more than expected. That could mean there is ...