A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding a quasar more than 12 billion light-years away. The finding pushes the ...

Wormholes, conceptual tunnels slicing through spacetime, offer a theoretical shortcut between two distant cosmic points.

Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or quasars, in the distant universe and then studied them with the James Webb ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe—not a flaw in telescope measurements—may be behind the decadelong mystery of why the universe is ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.

This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.