In 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble published a paper demonstrating that the universe is expanding. It gave rise to the Hubble ...

A dazzling galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is forcing cosmologists to reexamine key assumptions about the early universe. The object, JADES-GS-z13-1, appears just 330 ...

A new idea about cosmic expansion has emerged that might remove the need for dark matter and dark energy altogether.

A new theory challenges the standard model of cosmology, arguing that dark matter and dark energy are not the forces behind ...

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that ...

A paper published in 2024 theorizes that time may have existed before the Big Bang, but we're still not entirely sure.

A new study suggests the universe may rotate -- just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest puzzles.

About half of the non-dark matter in the universe cannot be accounted for by stars and galaxies alone. Now, scientists say ...

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

Not everything we knew about the universe is wrong. But not not everything. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) ...