Space is filled with a variety of objects, some blisteringly hot, some tremendously cold, but areas with little to nothing at ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

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 ...

Astronomers realized that a strange cloud of gas was actually a relic of the ancient universe which might help solve some of ...

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing to observe SN Eos, an ordinary supernova from the ...

How many electrons are there in the Universe? One bold theory suggests that there could only be one, although this theory has ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For decades, scientists have held that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old ...

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

Cosmologists are quietly confronting a possibility that would have sounded absurd a generation ago: the standard picture of a ...

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

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...