Nailing down cosmic expansion could depend on distant quasars, and the time it takes their light to reach us when…
Weighing the universe is a tricky task, but a team of astronomers have used a clever technique to measure how…
Because gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, they can be lensed just as light waves are. But observing…
Much of the gold we find on Earth was created by colliding neutron stars, but astronomers now know gold must…
A detailed simulation of dark matter finds that dark matter haloes form in a wide range of sizes.
The last supernova in history will be the final burst of light in a cold, dark, and dead cosmos.
A new study finds that while black holes drive the formation of galaxies, they are also what kills them in…
Back in 2015, construction began on a new telescope called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Later this year, it…
If you look out on the sky on a nice clear dark night, you'll see thousands of intense points of…
When it comes to cosmological theories, the Big Bang theory has historically had only one big contender - the Steady…