Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

To explore this long-standing mystery, an international team of scientists formed a group known as the Collaboration for ...

Astronomers realized that a strange cloud of gas was actually a relic of the ancient universe which might help solve some of ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Somehow, even without silicon, this star was surrounded by dust. The dust grains were made almost entirely of iron. This has ...

The Universe may not have started with the Big Bang, but instead “bounced” out of a massive black hole formed within a larger “parent” universe, according to a new scientific paper. Professor Enrique ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

The fate of the cosmos may be a bit different than previously expected. For years, scientists have talked about how the universe is always expanding — constantly moving outward, never stopping.

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Now physicists from the University of Washington are taking a big swing at answering that question. All matter exerts gravitational force. The more mass the object has, the greater the force. Yet, a ...

This December, the SciFri Book Club will read The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean M. Carroll. This New York Times bestseller transforms intimidating physics equations ...