It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from the early cosmos.

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

He’s already the world’s richest man. His latest move is making Elon Musk look increasingly like the poster boy for extreme ...

Astronomers detected a powerful cosmic flash from a star that exploded when the universe was just 5% of its current age, 13 ...

The universe is absolutely massive in ways that are hard to properly get your head around, but what’s even more […] ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

Buried deep below the American Midwest, a new kind of observatory is taking shape that aims to watch some of the most elusive particles in the universe as they stream straight through Earth. The Deep ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...