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 ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more differences in temperature anywhere, which means thermodynamics shuts down, ...

The extreme supersonic winds of WASP-127b are more than 60 times faster than the fastest winds ever observed on Earth ...

Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the existence of mirror asymmetries in our universe by studying the handedness of the ...

The team's findings, which were published Monday in the journal Nature, also unveil a method of investigating dark matter, ...

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

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

The discovery could help scientists get closer to understanding the mysterious invisible matter that makes up the bulk of our ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...