John Lithgow has reportedly been cast as Dumbledore in the new 'Harry Potter' series, and the actor's resume makes a strong case he's the perfect fit.

If scientists confirm an anisotropic expansion, it would challenge the assumption that the universe has no preferred directions.

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a massive superstructure named Quipu. This enormous cosmic formation weighs an astonishing 200 quadrillion times the mass of the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

Neutrinos are ghostly subatomic particles that can travel in a straight line for billions of light-years, passing unhindered ...

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

Euclid, a space telescope on a mission to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, has already made a stunning ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

Discover the extraordinary Einstein ring discovered by the Euclid space telescope. A perfect ring of light encircling galaxy ...