Somehow, even without silicon, this star was surrounded by dust. The dust grains were made almost entirely of iron. This has ...

Physicists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: our familiar universe of three dimensions of space and one of ...

Scientists propose a new gravity theory using Friedmann equations. Their model explains the universe’s accelerating expansion ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

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The end of the universe has always felt like a distant abstraction. But new calculations suggest that our original timeline might have been wildly optimistic. According to a team of Dutch scientists, ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

PBS viewers have a chance to go on a brilliant journey through the universe as the network launches a new, five-part NOVA series titled "NOVA Universe Revealed." Premiering Oct. 27 at at 9 p.m. EDT ...

Short answer: We don't really know how the universe was created, though most astrophysicists believe it started with the Big Bang. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The ultimate stability of the vacuum of our universe may rest on the masses of two fundamental particles, the Higgs boson — that inhabits all space and time — and the top quark. The latest ...