In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, ...

The universe is not just large - it is structured in layers that grow exponentially in size. Solar systems form galaxies, ...

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

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. Whether the universe will "end" at all is ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Paul Sutter explores how ancient creation myths and modern cosmology answer the same questions, framing the Big Bang as a scientific creation story rooted in observation and theory ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe’s contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and electrons. Most of those atoms cannot be found in stars and galaxies – a ...

Scientists have discovered a massive, rotating galactic filament stretching about 50 million light-years across, containing roughly 300 galaxies that are all spinning ...