One hundred degrees might seem hot, when you’re sweating through your shirt in July—but on a cosmic scale it barely registers. The Sun itself is over 15 million degrees; and in a hottest-object ...

Since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021, astronomers have felt as if they have gained a "magnifying ...

Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rather than being empty, black holes are chock full of matter that gets squeezed into a teensy space.

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

They reckon a mysterious ripple picked up by waved detectors on Earth could have arrived from another universe via a ...

According to a paper published this past week in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists found what could be the brightest known object in the universe: a quasar produced by a massive and voracious ...

The study is published in the latest issue of The American Journal of Physics ("All objects and some questions"). Masses, sizes, and relative densities of objects in our Universe. (© The American ...

The first-ever artificial intelligence simulation of the universe seems to work like the real thing -- and is almost as mysterious.Researchers reported the new simulation June 24 in the journal ...

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Astronomers report that they have detected the second most distant dusty, star-forming galaxy ever found in the universe -- born in the first one billion years after the Big Bang. It is the oldest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If there's one thing we've experimentally determined to be a constant ...

The fabric of expanding space as illustrated over cosmic time. One of the consequences of the expansion is that the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it appears to recede from us, and that the ...