Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

The idea that the cosmos might be alive is moving from late-night speculation into serious, if controversial, scientific ...

Somehow, even without silicon, this star was surrounded by dust. The dust grains were made almost entirely of iron. This has ...

James Webb has spotted mysterious little red dots in the early universe that may actually be hidden black holes, challenging ...

The Universe may not have started with the Big Bang, but instead “bounced” out of a massive black hole formed within a larger “parent” universe, according to a new scientific paper. Professor Enrique ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

Some discoveries emerge softly, with no explosions or satisfying conclusions. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Now physicists from the University of Washington are taking a big swing at answering that question. All matter exerts gravitational force. The more mass the object has, the greater the force. Yet, a ...

The end of the universe has always felt like a distant abstraction. But new calculations suggest that our original timeline might have been wildly optimistic. According to a team of Dutch scientists, ...

This study could transform our understanding of the future of the universe and raise the possibility that the universe may one day contract instead of expanding infinitely.