The vastness of the cosmos hides more than distant stars—it conceals the very forces that shape reality. Astronomers have ...

NASA has confirmed that operations have begun for its latest space observatory, which is tasked with snapping 3,600 images of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered Zhúlóng, the most distant known spiral galaxy, existing just ...

"Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these structures are much larger – the Giant Arc is almost three times bigger and ...

Helicopters are being used to tackle Scotland's fourth wildfire this week after others broke out in England amid warmer-than-usual temperatures. The latest blaze was reported in Galloway at 11 ...

If dark energy is weakening, as suggested by recent results, then the cosmos is far stranger than most physicists had ...

The XRISM science team, including members from Nagoya University in Japan, has explained how a galaxy cluster maintains its heat, despite emitting X-rays that cool the hot gas at its center. The group ...

The most massive structure in the Universe, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, challenges cosmological models with its ...

Over billions of years, the universe has transformed from a simpler state into an intricate cosmic web, but new research ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an ...

Let’s get the disappointment out of the way early: “There is physically, absolutely zero way that we will ever know,” how large the universe is, Sara Webb, an astrophysicist at Swinburne ...