This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency (Esa). It has launched spectacularly ...

The Big Bang theory has been the standard explanation of the universe's origin for decades. But one group now claims everything we think about the birth of the cosmos might be wrong.

The standard Big Bang model suggests the universe began with a singularity - a point of infinite density where physics breaks down. To explain the universe’s structure and expansion, scientists rely ...

In addition to the TMT, proposed federal funding cuts threaten the world-class Keck and Gemini observatories, the solar ...

Collision likelihood within 5 billion years seen under 2% Milky Way and Andromeda have a similar mass and shape New study ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

A new simulation by researchers shows how a neutron star violently cracks seconds before vanishing into a black hole.

Black holes could serve as cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter and similarly ...

''Atmosphere'' by Taylor Jenkins Reid, the author behind the No. 1 New York Times bestselling books "Daisy Jones & The Six," "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo," "Malibu Rising" and "Carrie Soto Is ...

“In the universe, an absolute vacuum is rare, and most of the universe is very low-density high-temperature plasma,” said Chris Impey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona. “In principle, sound ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...

More than a decade ago, scientists predicted our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring Andromeda would collide in four billion ...