Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope isn’t just taking pictures — it’s time-traveling with light. In this video, we follow its ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin pictured atoms as tiny knots in an invisible medium called the ether. That picture turned out to be wrong, since atoms are built ...

The observable universe is 93 billion light-years wide — but what’s beyond it? Astronomers have found strange patterns in the cosmic background radiation that suggest something massive and unseen ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

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