How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

Scientific advancements have made it possible to peek into a faraway galaxy that has big implications.

Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...

A physicist proposes that the universe is not empty space, but is a viscous fluid, fueling the expansion and contraction we see.

The galaxy has been given the name MoM z14, short for what researchers describe as the “mother of all early galaxies.” Its distance slightly surpasses the previous record holder, a galaxy known as ...

Deep inside the mantle of Earth, Stanford scientists have recorded quakes which are physically not explainable.

A team of Italian astronomers discovered a fossil galaxy estimated to be 3 billion light-years away from Earth, making it the most distant spectacle of its kind outside of the local universe. Dubbed ...

Our solar system may be the odd one out. Across the Milky Way, astronomers keep finding super-Earths, planets larger than our ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

The most powerful cosmic rays in the universe currently have no explanation. New research suggests that exotic, self-annihilating particles in our own galaxy may hold the answer. When you purchase ...

Webb discovered the incredibly distant galaxy JADES-GS-z13-1, observed at just 330 million years after the Big Bang. Researchers used the galaxy's brightness in different infrared filters to estimate ...