Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they ...

Cosmologists have spent decades trying to pin down exactly how fast the universe is flying apart and whether that rate is changing. A new AI-driven method called GAME, short for Genetic Algorithms ...

An atlas doesn't seem to be an essential item in cars these days, but think about them and most people will think about distances. An atlas of the stars not only covers distances but must also take ...

Everything we know about the evolution of the early universe is currently being challenged. Multiple galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope do not match up with the standard model of ...

In a mesmerizing display of scientific artistry, NASA has unleashed a stunning simulation that takes viewers on an awe-inspiring journey through the history of the universe. While the universe's ...

There may be something wrong with our models of the cosmos. The matter in the universe is getting clumpier and clumpier over time but it appears to be happening more slowly than expected. This ...

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according to ...

NASA and the European Space Agency have released an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope of a dwarf irregular galaxy that they admit looked "unexciting" at first glance. However, there's more ...

A systematic search for the first bright galaxies to form in the early universe has revealed a dramatic jump in the number of such galaxies around 13 billion years ago. These observations of the ...