This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

The story begins with the black hole information paradox. According to relativity, anything that falls into a black hole is ...

A mysterious glow of gamma rays in the centre of our galaxy has been a mystery for decades, but researchers think they’ve ...

ORCs are vast, faint rings of radio energy that surround galaxies and can be detected only in radio wavelengths of the ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.