Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early universe. It’s a cosmic giant whose light has travelled over 12 billion years to ...

Not only is it difficult to understand what goes on beyond the limits of the solar system that our planet calls home, the ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

"The ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time," Heino ...

Distant quasars may hold the key to spotting elusive gravitational waves—and revealing hidden dimensions of the universe.

Astrophysicists have proposed a new theoretical maximum lifespan for the universe, which suggests that dead stars are ...

A researcher simulated the Athenian temple’s lighting conditions at different times of the day, discovering that its interior ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their ...

For the last few decades, every observation seemed to be in reasonable agreement with this narrative, so physicists integrated a cosmological constant into their model of how the universe works.