Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

Wonder Bound, the product of a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

Quantum 2.0: The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology by Paul Davies (Feb. 6, $26, ISBN 978-0-226-84932-4) ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

The final milestone in construction was reached on November 25, as technicians carefully joined the giant telescope's inner ...