On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

A new space telescope will help scientists look back in time at the origin of our universe and the galaxies and planetary systems that have populated it ever since. The mission will further our ...

The Universe may not have begun with a Big Bang, but instead with a Big Bounce, according to a new theory about how the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA is preparing to launch a megaphone-shaped observatory on a mission to better understand what happened immediately after the Big Bang that initiated the universe and to ...

The vast emptiness of space is growing emptier one star at a time. That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun. In a new ...

"Challenging long-held assumptions is essential to scientific progress." A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

George Smoot, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped take an image of the universe in its infancy, providing strong support for the Big Bang theory and new insight into the origins of the cosmos, ...