Our Universe Could Collapse Inward, Bold New Theory Suggests—Completely Upending Our Blueprint of the Cosmos

A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...
WDRB

Dark Matter: The universe is made up of three components, one acting as the invisble glue that holds it all together...

The universe is made up of three components: normal or visible matter (5%), dark matter (27%), and dark energy (68%). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center From stars and galaxies to the shoes on your ...
New Scientist

Can we ever know the shape of the universe?

Start off in any direction and fly through the universe. Out of our solar system, beyond the edge of the Milky Way, through the forest of galaxies that make up our Local Group into the wilderness of ...
The Conversation

Where is the center of the universe?

Rob Coyne receives funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what ...