Tiny red objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of ...

The most exciting yet controversial possibility traces back to a theory proposed by British physicist Stephen Hawking in 1971: that black holes originated from the primordial soup of the Big Bang. If ...

EVE Frontier' developers Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson talk galaxy merger models, black holes, and the thin ...

New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the ...

Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen—at ...

From early experiments with lanterns to Einstein’s revelations about space and time, the speed of light has proven to be far ...

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...