The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact ...

There’s a mysterious energy quietly influencing your brain. Could it explain where your consciousness originates?

A rare gravitationally lensed supernova called SN 2025wny appears in five separate images due to the gravity of two ...

The “horizon” he points to isn’t a doorway to the divine, other scientists say. Yet, modern physics has been trying to answer questions once left to religion.

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

A mile beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews have spent years blasting and hauling rock to carve out enormous ...

One of the largest known stars in the universe underwent a dramatic transformation in 2014, new research shows, and may be preparing to explode. A study led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National ...

“For the last 20 years, people believed that the cosmological constant is positive, and the universe will expand forever,” says Tye, a professor emeritus at Cornell. A positive constant acts like a ...