Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it ...

Give me a qubit for long enough and a probe in which to measure it, and I shall extract the geometry of our world.” ...

In simplest terms, the rate at which the universe expands on paper doesn’t match actual astronomical observations. That speed ...

If this scenario plays out, “the world as we know it would collapse like a house of cards,” says one theoretical physicist.

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

A new approach suggests that a tiny spin of the universe throughout space might reconcile those conflicting numbers. If the ...

These series of step-like bursts happen so rapidly that they are difficult to observe as these singularities wink in and out ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

Intriguingly, ultralight dark matter might be able to turn into photons (light) — and it's through this process that the ...

Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less ... Apr. 9, 2025 — Astronomers have peered back in time to find what ... to unlocking some of the universe's secrets.

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...