For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

A groundbreaking study from Radboud University suggests the universe may end in approximately 10^78 years, significantly ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Wonder Bound, the product of a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified the earliest supernova on record, according to a statement released ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...