An unorthodox theory holds that some of the fine structure seen in the universe's cosmic microwave background is really the imprint of our local interstellar neighborhood and not echoes of the Big Bang.

A massive dark star voraciously eating matter and dark matter until it is well over 100,000 times the mass of the sun (NASA/Ian O'Neill). Approximately 200 million years after the Big Bang, the universe was a very different place. For starters, there was no starlight as there were no stars. This pe...

Curiosity uses a cup of coffee as a way to explain the beginnings of our universe.

When the universe popped into existence and was compressed into a space smaller than an atom, was it breaking the rules of physics?

The greedy supermassive behemoths may have gobbled down two accretion disks-worth of matter rather than just the one.

"Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God [...] that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them." This is a rather bold statement, and oddly enough, it was made by an otherwise distinguished physicist in an unpublished article. Unpublished (and slightly tongue-i...

If today's big news announcement from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Washington D.C. needed a theme song, I'd borrow lyrics from "Kansas City" (from the musical "Oklahoma") i.e. "They've gone about as fur as they c'n go!" Following the installation of Hubble's new super-panchrom...

Warp speed sure makes space travel handy in science fiction, but is such a scientific feat even possible from a physics standpoint?