If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists, as they believed the formation of such well-organized spiral galaxies took ...

"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make ...

In the search to understand how the universe came to be, a new theory is rewriting the script. Instead of one massive, fiery birth like the Big Bang, this idea suggests the cosmos has been growing in ...

Dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up roughly 80 percent of all the matter in the universe, may have been forged before our cosmos was even born. Scientists have long theorized as to ...

Scientists have long been interested in the early history of the universe. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped popularize that the Big Bang was a singular point in time — but that's not how many ...

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 ...

No one knows what kicked off the Big Bang that eventually allowed the stars to begin forming. Adolf Schaller for STScI, CC BY How can a Big Bang have been the start of the universe, since intense ...

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

The Big Bang Theory universe is expanding at such a rapid pace that it just defied the laws of physics. In a statement Wednesday, Lorre said, "I wanted to do something radical that would take me out ...