Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

The question of whether the cosmos goes on forever is no longer just a late night thought experiment, it is a live research ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

An immensely powerful flash detected earlier this year was created by a massive star exploding when the universe was just ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

A team of researchers has built one of the most detailed open maps of emerging technologies yet assembled, allowing ...

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make predictions.