Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found ...

Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes still reverberate to the present day. It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ...

Supermassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe challenge traditional formation ...

Missing sisters, catastrophic explosions, and year-long pregnancies. For a show about physicists, The Big Bang Theory has a lot of missing pieces.

Given the serious security threat to the European continent posed by Russia, the standard step-by-step approach to increasing ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...

Scientists have been amazed to discover an ancient and 'nearly naked' black hole at the very furthest reaches of the universe ...

If the thought of a supermassive black hole terrifies you, a new study may provide some relief. Scientists say that these galactic giants might not actually be as big as we thought.

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...