The oldest naked eye star yet found still provides stellar theorists with key data on the earliest epochs of our Milky Way.

A paper published in 2024 theorizes that time may have existed before the Big Bang, but we're still not entirely sure.

These bursts, or “transient temporal singularities,” might explain why the universe is expanding without needing mysterious ...

Among the vast galaxy of sitcoms, The Big Bang Theory has carved out a devoted fan base—so much so that its universe continues to expand with spin-off shows.

Our new study of the nearby starburst galaxy Haro 11 has shown that strong X-ray-emitting superwinds may be a key mechanism ...

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

In a study published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), which is a part of The University of Alabama ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

A new theory challenges the standard model of cosmology, arguing that dark matter and dark energy are not the forces behind ...

"We discovered a galaxy which formed 15 billion times the mass of the sun in stars and then stopped forming stars before the ...

First discovered in the 1990s, dark energy has come to feel like a familiar face of the cosmos. Astronomers first imagined ...

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.