Are parallel universes just a wild theory or something more? In this deep dive, we explore multiverse theory, its many ...

Astronomers uncovered seven dust-shrouded quasars from Cosmic Dawn, doubling the known tally of early supermassive black holes.

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...

Conspiracy theories used to live in the dark corners of society, whispered about by that one uncle at Christmas who had already had too much eggnog. Then along came the internet, social media ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

A gravitational wave event detected in 2019 might have led astronomers to discover the first wormhole in the universe. LIGO and Virgo picked up the wave that lasted less than a tenth of a second.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter theories about the universe's origins. Scientists at the University of Missouri "looked deep into the universe ...

The mysterious objects might be early galaxies that could alter the understanding of the early universe. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists make discoveries that could alter ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope recently captured rare observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, offering new insights into its makeup and behavior. Credit: NASA/SPHEREx NASA's SPHEREx ...

This sort of motion is common in galaxies sporting active central supermassive black holes, like the one in the nearby elliptical galaxy M87. Astronomers have measured motion in M87’s ejecta as rapid ...