Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

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

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

For the first time ever, astronomers revealed the birthplace of an energetic jet blasted by a newborn star using the Atacama ...

We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

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

After four rounds of layoffs in two years that cut a quarter of its employees, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory now faces a ...

Researchers have built a small but powerful detector to find gravitational waves in a hidden frequency range. The discovery ...

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to ...