The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

A new approach suggests that a tiny spin of the universe throughout space might reconcile those conflicting numbers. If the ...

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.

A faint cosmic spin – one rotation per 500 billion years – could resolve the stubborn Hubble tension by tweaking standard ...

In simplest terms, the rate at which the universe expands on paper doesn’t match actual astronomical observations. That speed ...

If this scenario plays out, “the world as we know it would collapse like a house of cards,” says one theoretical physicist.

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

As the Hubble Space Telescope approaches 35 years since its launch, marking over three decades of incredible images of the ...

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t account for half—until now.

Universal’s new Epic Universe park is shaping up to be a serious competitor to Disney. Scheduled to open in May 2025, the ...