Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

This initiative is in turn driven by my frustration with the status quo, namely the notion of dark matter’s existence despite ...

Made from over 1,100 images captured by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the video begins with a close-up of two galaxies then zooms out to reveal about 10 million galaxies. Those 10 million ...

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions in spectacular detail.

Explore the COSMOS-Web project unveiling 13.5 billion-year-old galaxies with JWST, offering insights into cosmic history and early universe mysteries.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How can a Big Bang have been the start of the ...

Scientists have discovered an unusual radio signal from 13 billion years ago and it could answer how the universe started. In our Earthly quest to find out how life as we know it began, researchers ...

Astronomers have at last found the universe's missing ordinary matter, the particles that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang and that account for everything we see around us, from the ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s development, known as the Cosmic ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s development, known as the Cosmic Dawn.

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have discovered a vast 23 million light-year-wide tendril connecting galactic clusters and containing much of the universe's missing matter.