Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time—the interwoven fabric ...

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” Carl Sagan once warned a maxim now resonating through telescopes worldwide as astronomers grapple with a mind-bending new discovery. The James ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its ...

A mystery signal in space has shocked scientists, what could have been? Imagine listening to the universe, yes, as if it was ...

But in the universe, they’re interwoven into a single fabric, called “ space-time.” That unification changes the way the universe works relative to what our intuition expects.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has potentially identified 300 ancient objects, possibly early galaxies formed shortly ...

Scientists using Google’s quantum processor have taken a major step toward unraveling the deepest mysteries of the universe.

A new theory suggests that “time” might be the product of a universe that, long ago, decided to settle down into one ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

Astronomers have discovered the most monstrous supermassive black hole ever. At 36 billion times more mass than our sun, it’s so big it’s pushing back the boundaries of possibility. They’ve even had ...