A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

India’s scientific community has quietly handed the world one of its most intriguing puzzles: a massive, elegantly structured spiral galaxy that existed when the universe was barely 1.5 billion years ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin pictured atoms as tiny knots in an invisible medium called the ether. That picture turned out to be wrong, since atoms are built ...

Phoenix A* isn't just big; its existence is a cosmic puzzle. How did a 100-billion-solar-mass black hole form in a ...

Locked inside a frozen rock from the edge of the world is a story that began before Earth had oceans, continents or even a ...

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

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock from around the world to study the origins of the universe in this ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...