For centuries, science has pushed the boundaries of our understanding, from exploring vast galaxies to diving into the ...

A new interpretation of dark energy data suggests that the mysterious force, which accelerated the early universe's expansion ...

One of the fundamental questions humanity has always asked is how big is our Universe?

Dive into the vast and fascinating worlds of some of the most iconic sci-fi franchises ever created. From the space-faring ...

At the same time, however, the scale of the universe is roughly 1029 centimeters across, which is enormous by any scale of microphysics. Carroll says it’s perfectly reasonable to ask why.

[Far-Out Discoveries About the Universe's Beginnings] Simulating the universeGiven the enormous age and scale of the universe, understanding its formation is a daunting challenge.

When it comes to the dark universe and how it has affected the growth of galaxies in large-scale structures across the universe, there's still much that we're, well, in the dark about.

It’s done logarithmically, using factors of ten, and does a pretty good job. It’s called The Scale of the Universe 2. It takes a few minutes to load, so be patient!

Using the Subaru Telescope’s new Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS), the team’s 3-D map includes 1,100 galaxies and shows the large-scale structure of the universe 9 billion years ago.

That was why I was so excited to stumble upon the following interactive website called The Scale of the Universe, developed by 14-year-old (!) Cary Huang. Please check it out if you have not already.

Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches. At the same time, there are more H 2 O molecules in just 10 drops of water ...