Liam Desre, a teen from Kingston, Ontario, won a top prize at this year’s Canada-Wide Science Fair for his theory about the ...

A new telescope atop a mountain in Chile will help scientists look back to when the universe had just begun.

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified the earliest known supernova, a star that exploded when the universe was ...

The expansion of the universe is still accelerating under the influence of dark energy, despite recent claims to the contrary ...

Magnetic fields are a fundamental part of the universe. They govern how small particles – the building blocks of planets, stars, and ultimately galaxies – move through space. We still don’t know how ...

A University of Birmingham scientist has built a "mini-universe" that takes a step toward answering one of science's biggest questions: "What is time?" Publishing his findings in Physical Review ...

New DESI-inspired research suggests dark energy may evolve over time and cross the mysterious "phantom divide," potentially ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built ...

In our “modern world” in the 21 st Century, we’re still in the relatively early days of scientific thinking. Not all that long ago, the precursors of science were at the forefront of most people’s ...

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The expansion of the universe may be slowing down rather than accelerating, according to a new study that challenges the Nobel Prize-winning theory of dark energy. “If confirmed, this would have ...

The first suggestion of the Big Bang was in 1912. Astronomer Vesto Slipher “conducted a series of observations of spiral galaxies (which were believed to be nebulae) and measured their Doppler ...