If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Our best theory of the universe might be breaking apart! The new data we're receiving from space telescopes is creating more ...

They rely on detailed and precise images of distant space to better understand our universe.Already, many of those images ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. Whether the universe will "end" at all is ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a key turning point in the universe’s development, known as the Cosmic Dawn.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Astronomers have found the largest known object in the universe, and its over 1 billion lightyears long and hundreds of thousands times bigger than the Milky Way. Although space is ...

Molecules containing noble gases shouldn’t exist. By definition, these chemical elements — helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon — are the party poopers of the periodic table, huddling in the ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.