Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to ...

Last year, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) released its most detailed map of the universe yet. And with it, ...

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...

The Universe may not have started with the Big Bang, but instead “bounced” out of a massive black hole formed within a larger “parent” universe, according to a new scientific paper. Professor Enrique ...

The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

For decades, astronomers have been trying to nail down the value of the Hubble constant—a measure of how fast the universe is expanding. But some cosmologists say there’s evidence that the universe is ...

The end of the universe has always felt like a distant abstraction. But new calculations suggest that our original timeline might have been wildly optimistic. According to a team of Dutch scientists, ...

Discover why astronomy and cosmology are the universe's mapmakers. Discover how scientists trace galaxies, the cosmic web, and the large-scale architecture of our entire existence in three dimensions ...

On a clear night far from city lights, the Milky Way stretches overhead as a pale band, yet most of the sky between those ...