However, astronomers now say that the effect of ordinary matter, which makes up only 16 percent of all matter in the Universe, and neutrinos, tiny particles that rarely interact with normal matter, ...

Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they ...

Mario Livio, bestselling astrophysicist, and Jack Szostak, Nobel Prize winner, join forces to discover how the universe ...

Everything we know about the evolution of the early universe is currently being challenged. Multiple galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope do not match up with the standard model of ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

The ESA's Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos. By observing cosmic structures up to a distance of 10 billion ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has given astronomers almost unmatched access to the secrets of our universe. Most notably, it has helped us better understand the early universe, how it has changed ...

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according to ...

When I thought about evolution, I always pictured big changes that happened over long time periods – like how birds evolved from dinosaurs. But then I talked with my friend Jeremiah Busch. He’s a ...