A faint, tiny flash of red light glimpsed at the Cosmic Dawn more than 13 billion years ago has smashed the record for the ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to be true. Space is stretching faster today than in the past, and the precise ...

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Scientists say the best explanation for the longest gamma ray burst is that a black hole consumed a star, but they disagree ...

The universe is absolutely massive in ways that are hard to properly get your head around, but what’s even more […] ...

Scientists observed a massive, rotating filament consisting of galaxies, gas, and dark matter in the cosmic web, located 140 million light-years from Earth. This structure, assessed using the MeerKAT ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a beautiful, well-formed spiral galaxy from a time when the universe was still very young—only ...

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

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

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