Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

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You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

When you look up at the night sky, it seems deep black with bright stars scattered across it. That familiar view leads many ...

They shaped the Universe, yet the first stars ever born continue to evade the searches of astronomers like Dr Emma Chapman ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

JWST has revealed a strange early universe filled with ultra-bright “blue monster” galaxies, mysterious “little red dots,” and black holes that seem far too massive for their age. A new study proposes ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Using the first dataset released by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The fate of the cosmos may be a bit different than previously expected. For years, scientists have talked about how the universe is always expanding — constantly moving outward, never stopping.

For decades, astronomers have been trying to nail down the value of the Hubble constant—a measure of how fast the universe is expanding. But some cosmologists say there’s evidence that the universe is ...

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, ...