An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has upended existing theories about how galaxies formed in the early ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

For the first time, scientists have captured the clearest and most detailed image of the cosmic microwave background ...

The standard model of how the universe works involves the widely accepted theory that dark energy is a fundamental constant ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent result reinforces it.

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a massive spiral disk galaxy, much larger than expected, in the early universe.

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

A radical new theory by physicist Naman Kumar is challenging the way we think about the birth of the universe. Rather than ...

Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the clearest and most precise images yet of the universe ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...