Astronomers discover PicII‑503, a 14-billion-year-old star carrying primordial elements, challenging theories of early star ...

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the elements—and how massive supernovae reshaped the cosmos ...

A doctoral candidate from the University of Washington may have heard a cosmic explosion that explains how the Moon came into ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...

With Sony’s Spider-Man Universe now over, the studio should try again with a stronger focus on heroes.

They’re struggling to connect the dots. Scientists are baffled over mysterious dots captured by the James Webb Space Telescope — with some suggesting they could be giant stars from the origins of the ...

This also means that there could be hidden curvatures of space-time or gravitational fields, which could explain a fundamental issue in physics: the hierarchy problem. There are several ongoing ...

Astronomers may have found an exciting new clue about dark energy—the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion. They discovered an extraordinarily bright supernova from more than ...

A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes ...

CERN team discovers heavy proton, advancing understanding of strong force LHCb spots ultra-brief, charm-rich baryon that ...

The Justice League is DC's biggest superhero team, but these seven great heroes have somehow never joined them.