The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

One of those ground-based telescopes is the Rubin Observatory, named after famed astronomer Vera Rubin. Unlike other ...

Does dark matter follow the same laws as ordinary matter? The mystery of this invisible and hypothetical component of our ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma ...

Science still faces mysteries like dark matter, consciousness, and the origin of life—questions that challenge researchers and push the limits of understanding.

Study finds dark matter may follow the same laws as ordinary matter on cosmic scales, though unknown forces could still be at play in this abundant, unseen substance.

Star Wars may have been the biggest sci-fi film out of the 1970s, but a surreal animated film from France might be the most ...

A distant chemical signature, captured by the infrared eye of the James Webb Space Telescope, has just opened a new window ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

The University of Colorado Boulder has launched Sensory-Friendly Sundays, a free monthly event for neurodiverse children and ...

A new international study has provided one of the clearest signs yet that dark matter—not a change in gravity—is responsible for the mysterious way galaxies spin. By studying some of the smallest and ...