Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

This cataclysm would result from a change in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space. It would be ...

This is how we approached our estimate. If there are two supernovae per millennium in your average galaxy and there are at ...

Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... we also look back in time. Compared with the universe as a whole, Earth is quite young at 4.5 billion years old. Scientists arrived at this ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy piercing the veil of darkness that shrouded the early universe.

Like the spark of the Big Bang, they bring matter and energy ... instances during which the matter and energy do fill the entire universe uniformly,” he explains. Between those moments, they ...

While that's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared. In fact, it's too big.

Whether we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world is a much-debated theory, challenging previous thinking about the universe and our existence. The possibility that the entire universe ...