Physicists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: our familiar universe of three dimensions of space and one of ...

The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...

But there are several important anomalies, including a widely debated one called the Hubble tension. It is named after Edwin ...

The scientists realized that these supernovae weren’t as nearby as they had thought, so they had zipped away from Earth quicker than expected. “These observations led scientists to ultimately conclude ...

To explore this long-standing mystery, an international team of scientists formed a group known as the Collaboration for ...

The Standard Model of our universe doesn’t match the evidence, in part because of dark energy, a ghostly force pushing the ...

Over its planned two-year mission, the $488 million telescope will scan the entire night sky every six months and collect ...

Contrary to popular belief, our universe may not be constantly expanding after all. A groundbreaking study by South Korean ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that our Universe might be hidden deep inside a massive Black ...

It’s easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed any kind of organized complex systems, could arise. Should we therefore ...