This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies. But data are not confirming ...

The Universe still holds many mysteries, and among the most intriguing are these invisible components known as dark matter ...

For decades, the prevailing cosmological model has placed dark matter and dark energy at the center of our understanding of the universe’s structure and evolution. These invisible components were ...

Two fresh ideas are giving scientists new ways to think about how the universe’s hidden mass came to be. Together, they paint a richer picture of dark matter’s origins and how we might still discover ...

Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That's a problem for our ideas about the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later. But some have proposed that it went the other ...

Quasars occur when supermassive black holes gobble up an incredible amount of gas. Observations and general wisdom suggested that a galaxy needed a lot of neighbors to deliver that much gas to a ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...