A telescope tasked with making the largest-ever map of the universe has confirmed a harsh, if unsurprising, truth: Nothing lasts forever — not cold November rain, or even the cosmos itself. Using a ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the most massive and unusual structures in the Universe, a giant cosmic filament located 140 million light-years away. This ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Earlier this year, Euclid—a European telescope tasked to create the largest 3D map of the universe—sent back troves of cosmic data from deep space. Astronomers have since been hard at work picking ...

An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing nearly 800,000 galaxies stretching back ...

Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to creating life. It’s related to the density of dark energy, which impacts star formation and the chances of life forming. The idea is that ...

In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early star formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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Rest assured that as everything seems to be falling apart on Earth, it also appears that the rest of the universe is on a downward trajectory, too. In new research that gauged several vital signs of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of these violent bundles of gas and stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.