In 1916, Albert Einstein discovered that his theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves — ...

New research suggests the universe is conscious, and that it possesses a sense of purpose.

Ambitious An artist’s impression of NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST). (Courtesy: NASA) The 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate raised new and ...

In a groundbreaking mission set to explore the very fabric of our universe, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up for its launch by May 2027. The telescope will offer a bold new ...

A new calculation of the end of the Universe suggests that the end of all things will come a lot sooner than our previous calculations indicated. Once the Hawking-like radiation emitted by ...

A New View Into the Universe At the summit of Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started its work. By Michael Jones McKean June 23, 2025 ...

The James Webb telescope's 100-hour reexamination of one of Hubble's most iconic extragalactic images reveals extraordinary ...

The largest map of the universe, created with data from the James Webb Space Telescope, shows almost 800,000 galaxies crammed into a tiny piece of sky and spanning almost all of time.

There’s more to the universe than meets the eye, he found. His studies led astronomy to the dark side, changing our view of what’s out there. By Dennis Overbye Jeremiah Ostriker, an ...

What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope?

A team of physicists have proposed a new cosmological model – dubbed the "black hole universe" – that suggests that our universe did not begin at the Big Bang.

Some people call it a sixth sense. Others simply view it as kismet. Regardless of how you view these messages, or as ...