This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...

In a nutshell Astronomers studying the nearby Coma galaxy cluster have found new evidence that the universe is expanding ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

The early universe experienced a phase of rapid expansion, known as inflation. For decades, cosmologists assumed that this ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

The atmosphere, a thin veil of molecules enveloping Earth, reaches about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the planet's surface.

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

Strange "right-handed" neutrinos may be responsible for all the matter in the universe, according to new research.

Researchers believe that a supernova in our galaxy could reveal the secrets of dark matter by emitting detectable gamma rays from axions. This discovery would provide key insights into the elusive ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...