Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Scientists at the PHENIX experiment at RHIC have uncovered compelling evidence that even collisions involving small nuclei ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs." ...

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

Measurements of the distance to the Coma Cluster of galaxies find that it is millions of light years closer than the standard ...