While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

The oldest and most distant black hole known to scientists dates back 13.3 billion years ago, when our universe was still in its teething stage, according to findings published this month. The ...

"We're really pushing the boundaries of what current technology can detect." A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...

For two decades, scientists believed the cosmological constant, known as λ (lambda), was positive. That meant the Universe would keep expanding indefinitely.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

This image shows the galaxy cluster IDCS J1426.5+3508, which contains a mass of almost 500 trillion suns. According to a new theory, it and everything else will collapse in on itself in the distant ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...