Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...

While we can never directly "see" the whole of the universe or glimpse its farthest horizons, we can discover how it is behaving—how fast it's growing, whether its growth will one day come to a ...

we can’t really see the Big Bang because the universe was so hot and dense that light was not free to move. The farthest we can see is light 400,000 years younger than that, but it’s very ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought.

A "cosmic CT scan" performed by scientists using two very different cosmic surveys has revealed the cosmos is less clumpy and ...

Astronomy continues to unlock the secrets of the universe ... we should surely acclaim the successful recent tests of the massive SpaceX Starship rocket. It can launch heavy cargo into space at ...

If the universe is 13.6 billion years old, how can astronomers ... Way (the farthest object visible to the naked eye). Go farther out — using telescopes — and it's possible to see things ...

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

But this will be so far in the future that our sun will ... Most of the mass that we can currently see in the universe will be contained in stars that have blown up and collapsed into black ...

The hydrogen comes from the primordial fire of the Big Bang and is by far the ... but the universe entered a dry period before Pop II and Pop I stars generated the water levels we see today.