The universe has been expanding for 13.8 billion years, but this may not go on forever. According to some theories, we may be ...

A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

The Big Bang may not have been the beginning of the universe, according to a theory of cosmology that suggests the universe can “bounce” between phases of contraction and expansion.

Team led by UChicago scientist Wendy Freedman using James Webb Space Telescope finds no evidence of tension in Hubble ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

While attempting to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, physicists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produced gold by accident. The surprising twist happened when lead atoms were ...

The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.

Stephen Hawking had a clear, simple answer when asked what came before the Big Bang. Hawking, who died at the age of 76 in ...

Let’s reimagine the walk of all walks. Not just a neighborhood stroll or a long-distance trek, but a bold journey to the ...

Renowned astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar questioned the Big Bang theory, believing the universe evolved slowly over ...

This galaxy existed when the cosmos was just 2 percent of its current age. That means its light had to travel for 13.53 ...