Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein showed they are interlinked in what is known as ...

In a significant development, astronomers have unearthed a spiral-shaped anomaly nestled deep within the cosmos. This ...

EVE Frontier' developers Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson talk galaxy merger models, black holes, and the thin line between science and fun.

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

Configurations like these, known as Einstein crosses, typically consist of four distinct points of light. This particular ...

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and ...

Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes still reverberate to the present day. It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ...

Seeking endorsements for her new book, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein finds herself staring at fundamental questions of space, time ...

Through the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Telescope, it has been possible to confirm the expansion of the ...

Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes thought to have formed moments after the Big Bang. Because they ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized ...