Dava Sobel, the author of that fascinating book Longitude, quoted Galileo: “The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how ...

Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

This discrepancy is measured using a metric called Sigma 8 (σ8), which tracks the clumpiness of matter. Lower-than-expected ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...

The Universe is expanding faster than ever, and recent findings fuel the ongoing debate among cosmologists. For decades, ...

Then, they underwent a rapid decline around 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. The images, such as the six Webb images ...

New research confirms the Universe is expanding faster than theoretical models predict, intensifying the Hubble tension.

For example, astronomers look to quasars to study reionization, a period less than a billion years after the Big Bang when ...