A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been quietly orbiting Earth for decades, but it’s still one of the most valuable tools […] ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

Astronomers watched as a black hole whipped up cosmic winds that shot material into space at 37,280 miles per second (60,000 ...

Black holes, born from dying stars, are cosmic giants that grow by consuming matter and merging with others. While invisible ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

New images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and a Jupiter-bound mission showcase interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ahead of its ...

"We reported hints of methane, but the question is, 'is the methane attributable to molecules in the atmosphere of the planet ...

Scientists believe that the universe on very large scales is made of a network-like distribution of galaxies, gas and dark ...

Beyond the local interstellar clouds and their wispy clumps of hydrogen and helium atoms in the form of gas and dust, the ...