Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

Astronomers have made the first direct observation of a spinning black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime, a ...

Fasten your seat belts, because if you visit the Michigan Science Center in Detroit you just might end up on a journey to the ...

Studies suggest that the universe's expansion is decelerating — but what could that mean for the future of the cosmos?

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

"The cosmic dipole anomaly has thus established itself as a major challenge to the standard cosmological model, even if the ...

Another batch of the ‘impossible’ galaxies turned out not to be standard galaxies at all, but a new type of object that ...

Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...

After a decade of construction, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) ushers in an all-new era of neutrino ...