In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have detected a unique, repeating cosmic radio signal originating from an unknown ...

How did we get here? Humanity, life on Earth, our planet itself—how did everything in the universe come into being? Well, as far as we know, it all started with the Big Bang. But while the Big Bang ...

The shape of the universe has been puzzling scientists for decades, and some new theories suggest it might not be the flat or spherical shape we’ve assumed, but something far more egg-like. While ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...

Massive stars have always puzzled scientists—how do they grow so quickly despite fierce radiation pushing material away? New high-resolution ALMA observations suggest that instead of relying solely on ...

Hubble’s striking image of the Large Magellanic Cloud reveals N11’s glowing stars and dusty clouds, blending data from two ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about a millisecond, ...

“Dark energy” is a term scientists use to refer to whatever is causing the universe to expand faster over time. We don’t know exactly what dark energy is—no one has ever directly seen or measured ...

Victor Seth Alpher Austin, TX - Victor Seth Alpher, formerly of Niskayuna, New York, passed recently at his home in Austin. Victor received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania ...