Recent astronomical and environmental discoveries have painted a picture of a universe in decline. Observations from the ...

Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe, with each containing hundreds or even ...

The universe is a vast, spectacular place that humans have striven to understand for millennia. Now, with the help of instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope, which snapped this image of the ...

The early universe is perhaps one of the biggest mysteries of our time, and while we've come close to unraveling some of those earliest mysteries thanks to advancing tech like the James Webb Space ...

Evidence suggests the universe’s expansion has started to slow, not accelerate. The results imply dark energy is weakening ...

It is widely accepted that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but now researchers say our measurements of the ...

What is dark energy? Why does dark energy seem to be weakening? Is our universe part of a larger multiverse? What lies beyond the boundary of a black hole? The universe seems to be rotating, and if ...

1. What Are Fermi Bubbles? No, this is not a rare digestive disorder. The bubbles are massive, mysterious structures that emanate from the Milky Ways center and extend roughly 20,000 light-years above ...

Cal Poly Physics Professor Thomas Gutierrez is the principal investigator of a $340,000 National Science Foundation grant involving particle physics. In an underground lab in a mountainous region of ...

Mind-blowing. Those are the two words I'd use to describe the "Mysteries of the Universe" weekender discovery tour, hosted by New Scientist. Over two days in the Cheshire countryside, a group of space ...

Aug. 1 is Women Astronomers Day, highlighting the historical achievements of women in astronomy. The designation honors the birthdate, in 1818, of Maria Mitchell, the first American woman astronomer ...