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

Whether we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world is a much-debated theory, challenging previous thinking about ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it won’t be happy.

For now, researchers think the light might be coming from the first stars to exist, or outflows from a supermassive black hole at the galactic core. But the source remains unknown.

This week, researchers uncovered the negative pressure mechanisms plants use to communicate stress. Linguists found that the ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The prevailing consensus in astrophysics is that the universe has spent the past 13-or-so billion years expanding outward in all ...

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 ...

The idea of a rotating universe isn't new; mathematician Kurt Gödel introduced the idea in a 1949 paper published in the journal Reviews of Modern Physics.Other researchers, like Stephen Hawking ...

Frankish is open to accepting the idea of a universe that is conscious and intelligent if this can somehow be observed. Though Youvan does believe that science could someday model aspects of ...

"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." When a planet is born from swirling pockets of molecular gas and dust that surround ...