WUWM astronomy contributor Jean Creighton discusses cosmology ahead of "Birth of the Universe" at UWM's Manfred Olson ...

The universe has left you a gift to decipher, January. Those born in January fall under stoic Capricorn or logical Aquarius, so most January-born may struggle to understand more abstract messages from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How ...

The brightest quasar ever seen in the young cosmos is powered by a black hole that appears to be breaking the universe’s own ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

Area of focus: Cosmology: decoding the secrets of the origin of the universe and how it has changed over time Johanna Nagy hopes to “see” the birth of the universe by mapping the fossil light that ...

Why does the Universe exist instead of having been annihilated shortly after its birth? This fundamental question in physics finds new illumination thanks to an unprecedented collaboration between two ...