In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

More than any other pope, Francis incorporated the best scientific conclusions into his teaching on the environment; he ...

Gough’s blowtorch theory and the evolutionary cosmology is, he suggested, “more exciting and attractive right now than the ...

Scientists may have finally found the universe’s missing matter - hidden in invisible hydrogen gas far beyond galaxies.

Dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up a significant portion of the universe, continues to puzzle scientists. For ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

A bold new theory suggests the universe didn’t begin with a single Big Bang, but instead unfolds through a series of ...

These series of step-like bursts happen so rapidly that they are difficult to observe as these singularities wink in and out ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...