The universe may be vast, but researchers have multiple points of evidence that reveal its shape.

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

The universe could be boundless, continuing in all directions without end, or it could be sealed up in a compact shape such as a sphere or doughnut. Of course, modern scientists have wondered about ...

Physicists have created a 3D shape called the cosmohedron, which can be used to reconstruct the quantum wavefunction of the universe – and potentially do away with the idea of space-time as the underl ...

A new study proposes a way to use weak gravitational lensing data to test the long-held Cosmological Principle of the ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries ... secrets — they identified changes to the inner core’s shape. Earth’s innermost layer is a hot, solid ball of metal surrounded ...