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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Alaknanda, a remarkably mature spiral galaxy existing just 1.5 billion years ...

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

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

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

The show where reality surpasses imagination. Making a stop in Rome, and for the first time in Italy, the show 'Evolution, ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

New details from the Webb telescope indicate there might be a fundamental problem with our understanding of the universe. The spiral galaxy NGC 4258, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, measures ...

As much of a toxic place as the internet can be, you can also learn something new every time you go online. Such pieces of ...