Scientists have long held that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, driven by a mysterious but measurable ...

“If confirmed, this would have profound implications for the fate of the universe,” said The Guardian. The study raises the ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever ...

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've observed in the universe so far.

The popular consensus among scientists is that the universe will continue expanding until the bitter end. A team of ...

A monumental complex built by the Maya around 3,000 years ago was modeled on a map of the cosmos, new fieldwork has revealed.

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...