The cosmos might be playing a different game than we thought. Scientists have spent decades believing our universe was ...

Challenging the Assumptions Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Physicists have determined that most of the universe is dark matter -- invisible to us but affecting the universe anyway.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.