To explore this long-standing mystery, an international team of scientists formed a group known as the Collaboration for ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Somehow, even without silicon, this star was surrounded by dust. The dust grains were made almost entirely of iron. This has ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

The Universe may not have started with the Big Bang, but instead “bounced” out of a massive black hole formed within a larger “parent” universe, according to a new scientific paper. Professor Enrique ...

Recent astronomical and environmental discoveries have painted a picture of a universe in decline. Observations from the James Webb telescope have highlighted a crisis in our understanding of cosmic ...

James Webb has spotted mysterious little red dots in the early universe that may actually be hidden black holes, challenging ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

Some discoveries emerge softly, with no explosions or satisfying conclusions. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

This study could transform our understanding of the future of the universe and raise the possibility that the universe may one day contract instead of expanding infinitely.

Now physicists from the University of Washington are taking a big swing at answering that question. All matter exerts gravitational force. The more mass the object has, the greater the force. Yet, a ...