It’s sometimes hard to grasp the scale of our universe, when even our own galaxy is so large and filled with billions of ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

The strength of dark energy in our universe is not optimized for forming stars, which means other universes might have a ...

The star’s name is WOH G64, offering rare onomatopoeic satisfaction for sounding exactly like what you might say when you see ...

Although galaxies appear pretty quickly after the Big Bang, the rate at which they grow was thought too slow for massive galaxies to emerge during the Cosmic Dawn. So, when JWST turned its golden eye ...

Giant filaments crisscross the universe, connecting galaxy clusters like superhighways between cities. Their shape and ...

Edwin Hubble, a renowned astronomer, revolutionized our understanding of the universe. He proved the existence of galaxies ...

Magnetic fields are everywhere in the universe. Of course, there's Earth's magnetic field, which deflects dangerous cosmic ...

One of humanity’s gifts is the ability to know a staggering truth without going mad. The late, great author Douglas Adams ...

Three ultramassive galaxies found by the James Webb Space Telescope have astronomers reconsidering how galaxies grew so quickly in the first billion years after the Big Bang.

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope in Tucson, Arizona, to create a map of the universe's ...