The universe has been expanding for 13.8 billion years, but this may not go on forever. According to some theories, we may be ...

An incredible phenomenon in the depths of our galaxy has left scientists baffled. A perfectly spherical object, lying ...

The biggest sample of galaxy groups to ever be detected has been unearthed by a team of international astronomers ...

Chinese scientists report that they’ve found a novel bacteria on the Tiangong space station, but can’t confirm if it evolved ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

As telescopes gaze into space, they also peer back in time. Starlight takes years—sometimes billions—to reach Earth, letting ...

It might seem unfathomable, but that mind-boggling max age for the universe is far lower than the previously predicted 10 ...

The universe is poised to die much faster than previously thought, according to new research by Dutch scientists.

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

Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense ...

Previous studies that didn’t factor Hawking radiation into their equations have put a white dwarf’s lifespan at 10¹¹⁰⁰ years.