The surreal Oscar-nominated short about three animals discovering a mountaintop astronomical observatory blends science and ...

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

A physicist proposes that the universe might not be empty but act like a viscous fluid, resisting expansion. This bold idea ...

Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening.

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

A team of physicists has proposed that the Big Bang did not mark the absolute beginning of everything but instead occurred inside a collapsing black hole, meaning our entire universe may exist within ...

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

A UK startup wants to build a cosmic radio station in the Moon’s orbit to listen to radio waves from the early universe. Blue Skies Space has secured a contract from the Italian Space Agency to design ...