So what does the edge of the universe look like? Initially, I thought it might be like Earth's atmosphere, with a vacuum outside. But then I learned that's not the case at all. A ...

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser ...

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the universe: it's just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number ...

Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a ...

Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists? In other words, what is the science of why there is anything at all, ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

The team explores one of the greatest discoveries of modern astronomy - that our universe is expanding - and the new questions it raises about how the cosmos works. The team explores one of the ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized ...

Astronomers once thought the universe's first stars (made of hydrogen and helium) were nearly all giants, hundreds to ...

On September 10, Zhuimi Technology officially announced the establishment of its Astronomy Business Unit (BU), systematically ...

Vogelsberger grew up in Germany, and received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Mainz and his PhD from the University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics ...