An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...

How did everything begin? It's a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, ...

"This is very likely to bring us closer to discovering the true nature of dark energy. Perhaps it will also bring us closer ...

However, the JWST has revealed a foundational cosmic mystery. The powerful space telescope, with its ability to observe ...

A group of astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) say some of the oldest galaxies in our ...

Time For Reflection Our understanding of the universe, as advanced as it is, is still riddled with paradoxes and huge ...

The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Humans have many ...

A radical hypothesis suggesting black holes could be behind the accelerating expansion of our universe has been stirring up ...

In 1980 Alan Guth, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave the big bang a boost, adding new particle physics to Einstein’s flexible space-time. He realized that for its first ...

Since the discovery of the acceleration, theorists have calculated that the universe will continue to expand faster and ...

The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe began as a hot, dense point, expanding into the cosmos we observe today.