It is widely accepted that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but now researchers say our measurements of the ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

There are four fundamental forces in the Universe. These forces govern all the ways matter can interact, from the sound of an infant’s laugh to the clustering of galaxies a billion light-years away.

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," obeys gravity on vast cosmological ...

When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands into the baking pan. Any chocolate chips or blueberries in the muffin ...

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our ...

The article chronicles the evolution of astronomy from astrology and alchemy to modern astrophysics, highlighting significant advancements like the development of spectroscopy and Einstein's theory of ...

A roughly 3,000-year-old site in Mexico was built in the shape of a cosmogram that stretches for miles, a new study suggests.