Compelling evidence that the structure of matter surrounding supermassive black holes has changed over cosmic time has been ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

In May, I traveled to England to interview, film and photograph for a documentary and articles marking Karl G. Maeser and ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope has identified the universe’s most ancient supernova to date. This milestone not only redefines astronomical records but clarifies how the universe’s first ...

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

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found compelling evidence for "monster stars" — gigantic, primordial stars that existed in ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...