From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...

A doctoral researcher in Australia has successfully recreated cosmic dust inside a laboratory, offering a new way to study ...

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

Discover why astronomy and cosmology are the universe's mapmakers. Discover how scientists trace galaxies, the cosmic web, and the large-scale architecture of our entire existence in three dimensions ...

Cosmic web Created using data from the JWST, this map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible ...

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, falling apart on cosmic scales. If you’re on the surface of Earth—and I’m ...

A UK startup wants to build a cosmic radio station in the Moon’s orbit to listen to radio waves from the early universe. Blue Skies Space has secured a contract from the Italian Space Agency to design ...

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the ...

Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.