At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at ...

The universe may be vast, but researchers have multiple points of evidence that reveal its shape. With the penny going away, ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

The new research suggests an alternative origin. Dark matter could have instead been born extremely hot, opening up ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

After the Big Bang, the Universe entered a long, dark period before the first stars formed. During this era, hydrogen emitted a faint radio signal that still echoes today. New simulations show this ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

Former Harvard physics professor Dr Michael Guillen believes he has worked out the location of Heaven using observations of the Cosmic Horizon ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

A new theory suggests that gravity could possibly be the result of entropy. If true, this would mean that everything in the ...