Scientists discover ancient galaxy created early transparent bubbles, challenging cosmic timeline of universe formation.

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had ...

The groundbreaking findings throw established science into question, write Bernard J.T. Jones, Licia Verde, Vicent J.

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, which includes researchers from the University of Toronto, recently ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

A long-simmering disagreement over the universe’s present-day expansion rate shows no signs of resolution, leaving experts ...

New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy may be evolving in ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...