Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

Thought the Super Bowl was big? Samsung’s highly-anticipated global product launch Galaxy Unpacked has tech fans in a frenzy, with the South Korean juggernaut finally unveiling its latest flagship ...

Of the thousands of single-star systems in our galaxy, around 10% are known to have planets. Scientists thus expected about ...

It's a glimpse into the universe's secret architecture, revealing how even the most subtle cosmic structures orchestrate the grand ballet of creation, guiding the destiny of galaxies across the eons.

Space observatories tend to work quietly, collecting data long before images reach the public. In March 2025, NASA launched ...

New data from major dark-energy observatories suggest the universe may not expand forever after all. A Cornell physicist calculates that the cosmos is heading toward a dramatic reversal: after ...

A physicist proposes that the universe is not empty space, but is a viscous fluid, fueling the expansion and contraction we see.

What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.

NASA's new SPHEREx observatory has released its first all-sky cosmic map. This map uses 102 infrared wavelengths to reveal the universe in unprecedented detail. Scientists can now study cosmic ...

Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

The broadest planned survey by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will reveal hundreds of millions of galaxies scattered across the cosmos. After Roman launches as soon as this fall, ...

XRISM measurements map gas velocities in the Perseus and Virgo clusters, separating black hole-driven turbulence from merger-driven motion using high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy.