Last year, our most detailed map of the universe yet suggested our understanding of dark energy has been wrong for decades. The shock result is reigniting the search for a better cosmic story ...

Lead image: This artist’s conception depicts how the formation of the universe’s first stars may have appeared. Dense clouds of hydrogen and helium likely collapsed inward, increasing pressure and ...

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The discovery made by a large research team challenges the existing models of the universe.

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent and role in shaping the universe.

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

Astronomers used RR Lyrae stars to trace the early Milky Way, revealing a rapid formation of its halo and disk, with chemical patterns similar to Andromeda.

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But ...

The early universe is perhaps one of the biggest mysteries of our time, and while we've come close to unraveling some of those earliest mysteries thanks to advancing tech like the James Webb Space ...

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Whether you realize it or not, you’re part of a revolution. Let me explain. In the past, ideas to interpret the nature of things developed slowly. Before there was astronomy, there was astrology, ...