An analysis of millions of galaxies found that the universe is barreling towards what is literally a much darker future.

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

When two neutron stars collided, the universe itself rippled. Gravitational waves rolled across space-time as if struck by a ...

A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it's shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies.

In a controversial new paper, researchers argue that the acceleration of the universe's expansion has slowed down.

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at ...

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Down on humanity lately? Consider the following fact, which should fill you with pride for your species. Little more than a century ago, humans believed that our universe consisted solely of the Milky ...