Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

"The new model can account for both structure formation and stability, and the key observational properties of the expansion of the universe at large." ...

The work of Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University’s Albert Einstein Professor of Science, professor of physics and astrophysical sciences, and co-founder of the Princeton Center for Theoretical ...

Two galaxies that closely neighbour the Milky Way are at war, with the larger tearing the smaller galaxy to shreds. The Magellanic Clouds are two dwarf galaxies, visible from the Southern Hemisphere, ...

The origin and the central engine of GRBs have long been pending for identification. Now a joint observation by LEIA and ...

Ostriker is responsible for groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the way astronomers think about what the universe is made of, including the existence of dark matter.

We’ve wondered what powered the Sun for centuries. Early guesses included meteor showers, chemical combustion, and ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

Dark matter is hypothesized to outweigh "ordinary matter" in the universe by a factor of five. That means all the stuff we ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a ...

During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String ...