Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought.

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

The early universe experienced a phase of rapid expansion, known as inflation. For decades, cosmologists assumed that this ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Space games have been there since the beginning of video game history. Today, these five offer galactic explorers a broad mix of genres with lots of fast-paced action adventures, tricky trade ...

Physicists have created a 3D shape called the cosmohedron, which can be used to reconstruct the quantum wavefunction of the ...

The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

Universal Orlando's Stella Nova Resort has galaxy & cosmic theme. Hotel is an hour from NASA, Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX in Florida ...