Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...

The question of whether the cosmos goes on forever is no longer just a late night thought experiment, it is a live research ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

A new joint analysis from the NOvA and T2K experiments offers the most precise look yet at neutrino behavior, bringing ...

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

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- A class of University of Chicago college undergrads helped discover a galaxy that dates back to when the universe was only a tenth as old as it is today, the university announced ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter develop from it.

The expanding Universe, full of galaxies and the complex structure we observe today, arose from a smaller, hotter, denser, more uniform state. But even that initial state had its origins, with cosmic ...