Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

Unsplash The universe has been around quite a while, and it is still growing. Even after billions of years, there are still ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. About a century ago, scientists were struggling to ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...

Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, shedding light on everything from dark energy to black hole physics. Its ...

Scientists have recently uncovered portal-like structures in space that could revolutionize our understanding of the universe. These findings, rooted in advanced astronomical observations and ...

A surprising new paper suggests that the universe's expected lifespan is just 33 billion years, and that the cosmos will start dying in less than a third of that time. However, this is only one ...