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

Could the universe be rotating at an imperceptible speed? An extremely slow rotation, occurring once every 500 billion years, ...

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

By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

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

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

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

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a ...

Some donors threatened to pull support from universities last year over mounting pro-Palestinian protests. But private gifts are just one way schools are funded. Former Northwestern President ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared Thursday that “by September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic,” setting a timeline of five months for identifying the growth of a ...

Dwarf galaxy nuclei contain hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of stars, making them the densest stellar clusters in the known universe — and this research seems to confirm that such ...

Compared with the all-too-brief lifespan of 100 or so years for humans — and even less for most plants and animals — the age of the known universe is mindbogglingly long. Currently estimated to be ...