Gravity behaves predictably in your daily life. Drop a ball, and it falls. Planets loop around stars. On paper, the same ...

The most precise measurement yet shows the Universe is expanding faster than expected, deepening the Hubble tension. The ...

A team led by the University of Pretoria has detected the most distant and luminous “cosmic laser” ever recorded, a natural radio signal known as a hydroxyl megamaser that originated in a galaxy ...

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New telescope instruments are pushing galaxy observation far beyond what was possible a decade ago. Advances in space telescope technology now allow astronomers to study billions of galaxies across ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

Using a new framework, astronomers arrived at the most precise measurement of our universe’s expansion rate—but things still don’t add up, they say. Reading time 3 minutes One major, unsolved problem ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In 1935, ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In ...