The Universe presents an extraordinary level of balance that has fascinated scientists and thinkers for centuries. From the ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

Matter-antimatter asymmetry puzzles physicists. Learn how the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) may find answers.

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its ...

A mystery signal in space has shocked scientists, what could have been? Imagine listening to the universe, yes, as if it was ...

For decades, scientists suspected this ion played a critical role in cooling the early cosmos, helping the first gas clouds ...

A new theoretical study proposes a radical idea in the search for dark matter—using the surface of Ganymede, Jupiter’s ...

A team of international scientists who are part of the Cosmic Evolution Survey program (COSMOS) created and released the map of the universe Thursday, June 5. Compiled from more than 10,000 images ...

To astronomers in the 1990s, these three facts were self-evident: The universe is expanding; all the matter in the universe ...

“This is a unique opportunity to learn how the universe’s first light emerged from the darkness,” said co-author Professor Anastasia Fialkov from Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy.

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...