From our small blue planet to the farthest reaches of the observable cosmos, this breathtaking journey explores the true ...

Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

Sure, they're not your typical baby pictures. But a global team of researchers says new images published this week show some of the clearest visualizations yet of the universe in its infancy. If our ...

Explore big discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of the universe. How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how ...

Scientists have unveiled the largest map of the universe ever created. Stretching across a tiny sliver of space and almost all cosmic time, it includes almost 800,000 galaxies imaged across the ...

Back in the mid-1990s, cosmologists—who study the origin, composition and structure of the universe—were beginning to worry that they were facing a crisis. For starters, two astronomers had observed ...

"Challenging long-held assumptions is essential to scientific progress." A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

How an innocent quest for scientific knowledge opened up a deadly can of worms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Neil deGrasse ...

Sometimes even being in a big city can be enough to make you feel small. But looking up into the empty vastness of space, the sheer size of the universe is almost impossible to comprehend. This ...

The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves ...