A vast structure seen more than 11 billion years ago reveals how clusters assembled from smaller clumps along the early ...

Fast radio bursts could be used to probe some of the universe's biggest puzzles, including the nature of dark matter and dark ...

Credit: National Astronomical Observatories of China and Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of CAS The Universe still has ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The mysteries of a strange era in the universe's history may have been ...

Within this 2D image is the galaxy proto-supercluster, COSMOS-z3.1-A, in the early universe. Credit: CTIO / NOIRLab / DOE / ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dark energy may have switched directions sometime in the distant past — and this violent transition may explain why cosmological ...

The universe is expanding. But how fast? Why is this happening? And what will be the universe’s ultimate fate? These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail ...

The universe has been expanding ever since the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago, and astronomers believe a kind of invisible force called dark energy is making it accelerate faster. If the result ...

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of cosmology. “What we found is a network of enormous ...

Galaxies are making far fewer stars even though much of their atomic hydrogen reservoir remains surprisingly intact.