The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

In a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journalletters, scientists confirmed something both exhilarating and unsettling: the universe is expanding in a way that defies our most trusted models ...

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

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 ...

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

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...

Astronomers detect a fast radio burst from 10 billion years ago, FRB 20240304B, revealing clues about the early universe.

Is time something that flows — or just an illusion? Exploring space-time as either a fixed “block universe” or a dynamic ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

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