Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...

Researchers hypothesize a fifth force of nature that could explain the intricate relationship between dark matter and dark ...

A "cosmic CT scan" performed by scientists using two very different cosmic surveys has revealed the cosmos is less clumpy and ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

Physicists have created a 3D shape called the cosmohedron, which can be used to reconstruct the quantum wavefunction of the ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that may have sparked extraterrestrial life in the very first galaxies.

The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...