A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

For decades, astronomers have listened to the cosmos through pulsars — rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit perfectly ...

From the speed of light to the size of galaxies, the universe operates on scales far beyond human intuition. Even at 186,000 ...

"It's a fairly unusual question to ask in the scientific world, because most researchers would agree that dark matter is dark ...

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of cosmic object in the Universe.

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been busy, and honestly, it’s like getting a whole new set of eyes on the universe.