Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified what may be the most distant barred spiral galaxy ever ...

Probing the dawn of the cosmos for clues to how the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed is no easy feat ...

The idea there are many universes seems to solve our most stubborn cosmic mysteries. But it’s no substitute for hard evidence ...

The Big Bang Theory maintained its core cast for the most of its run, but some supporting characters could have used more screentime.

A quasar observed roughly 12 billion years ago is consuming matter at about 13 times the rate that physics says should be ...

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a ...

High-Luminosity LHC upgrade work has begun at CERN after the Large Hadron Collider logged its final collision on June 27, 2026, entering a four-year, $1.5 billion Long Shutdown 3 program to replace 1.

If we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the cosmos. This is known as the cosmological principle.

When Andreas Albrecht was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he was looking for an advisor in particle physics ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...