Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

It's certainly been a cold week in Colorado, and the state was home to one of the coldest places in the universe.

Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...

Scientists have confirmed the space around us appears to be growing faster than physics can explain, based off precise ...

Physicists have created a 3D shape called the cosmohedron, which can be used to reconstruct the quantum wavefunction of the ...

New research confirms the Universe is expanding faster than theoretical models predict, intensifying the Hubble tension.

When we turn to “complex” extraterrestrial life or “intelligent” aliens, our results were 67.4 percent agreement, and 58.2 ...