The universe began with a bang—an explosion so intense, it forged the fabric of space and time itself. This pivotal moment, ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.

For decades, astronomers were certain that half of the ordinary matter in the universe — protons and neutrons, the building ...

To them Nature is the sphere of essentially impersonal energy and law, which are either absolutely indifferent or actively hostile to human ideals. Huxley, for example, regarded the ‘cosmic ...

Scientists have designed a 'cosmic radio' detector which could discover dark matter in 15 years. Published today in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkley and ...