While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

Researchers propose that hydrogen gas from the early Universe emitted detectable radio waves influenced by dark matter.

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

The solar system is projecting with gold but scientists can't quite figure out where all this hard-to-make metal is being ...