The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the universe's earliest supernova. This event offers a rare glimpse into the early universe. It shows how ...

For over two decades, cosmologists have believed that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, driven by a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Alaknanda, a remarkably mature spiral galaxy existing just 1.5 billion years ...

Last month, the Bean Life Science Museum opened their new exhibit, the Evolutionary Tree of Life, to the public.

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from the early cosmos.

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...