Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational waves. University of ...

In a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journalletters, scientists confirmed something both exhilarating and unsettling: the universe is expanding in a way that defies our most trusted models ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. About a century ago, scientists were struggling to ...

"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big Bang. Such detections would greatly help to constrain black hole formation ...

Fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The theory combines the ideas of particles and waves into a concentration of energy that flows throughout space and time.

A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, ...

An ambitious, multinational project to survey the entire Southern Hemisphere’s night sky over a 10-year period has thousands of astronomers, astrophysicists and data scientists on the threshold of a ...

Let’s reimagine the walk of all walks. Not just a neighborhood stroll or a long-distance trek, but a bold journey to the universe’s edge. This isn’t your average hike—it’s an epic quest across time ...

A fringe new theory suggests that time is the fundamental structure of the physical universe, and space is merely a byproduct. According to Gunther Kletetschka, a geologist — not a physicist, you’ll ...

University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of measuring the universe’s gravitational wave background—the constant flow of waves that churn through the cosmos, ...