The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism.

This cataclysm would result from a change in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space. It would be ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

A new paper uses a simplified model to prove that gravity can be unified between quantum and standard physics. The simpler ...

Proclus’s visionary insights into planetary satellites reveal a divine cosmic order that foreshadowed modern astronomical ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Is consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe, present in all matter to some degree? This idea is known as ...

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.