An analogy that's used in the NOVA program that I'm quite fond of is: We are certainly aware of intelligent beings on this planet whose capacity to understand the deep laws of the universe is limited.

If the observations of cosmic acceleration featured in the NOVA program "Runaway Universe" are correct, then the universe will probably continue to expand forever. Does this mean that the universe ...

“I think it will help us understand the universe better,” Bill Gropp, National Center for Supercomputing Center director and U of I professor, said. And it’s all because of a new artificial ...

However, in the first 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe was just a hot, dense plasma. But as it cooled, it ...

According to the model, a mysterious entity known as dark energy is supposed to be driving the universe’s expansion at a ...