The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way astronomers think about what the universe ...

The rotating model, which does not break any known law of physics, suggests the universe could spin around once every 500 billion years. This would be far too slowly to detect easily, but enough to ...

In simplest terms, the rate at which the universe expands on paper doesn’t match actual astronomical observations. That speed ...

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

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...

Fifty years ago, scientists recovered samples of potential extraterrestrial life, but may have unintentionally destroyed it ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched one of its most precise science experiments to date — the Atomic Clock Ensemble ...

Astronomers may have found the strongest hint of life beyond Earth thanks to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

A team of astronomers has detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible biosignature, or signs of ...