For decades, astronomers have looked to the outer reaches of the cosmos for answers to our most fundamental questions: Where ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

The Universe still holds many mysteries, and among the most intriguing are these invisible components known as dark matter ...

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

If the universe is expanding, then what is it expanding into, and what is it expanding from? Where's the edge of the universe ...

The Milky Way is an exceptional galaxy and home to our small slice of the cosmos. Despite the Milky Way's long history, astronomers say that a galaxy of its type was far too fragile to exist during ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the oldest "dead" galaxy ever observed while studying the cosmos with the James Webb Space Telescope, and it's one of the deepest views into the distant universe made ...

The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow bigger and bigger until they become the giant galaxies we see in the modern ...

How can any telescope see a galaxy 33.8 billion light-years away in a universe that is only 13.8 billion years old? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A spacecraft that’s exploring the dark universe has released its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Named Euclid after the ancient Greek “father of geometry,” the satellite was developed by the ...