It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

In fact, the Euclid Consortium, the international group managing the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, just ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

I/ATLAS was first discovered on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS telescope system in Hawaii. Its hyperbolic orbit, a trajectory not ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density – given that the universe contains a lot of relatively empty space, could ...

Much like a 3D hologram emerges from the information encoded on a 2D surface, our universe’s 4D space­­time could be a holographic projection of a lower-dimensional reality. Specifically, Maldacena ...

A new project is collecting thousands of messages destined for the cosmos, coinciding with the anniversary of a landmark ...

Arcadium: Space Odyssey is a space roguelite where players explore a living, procedurally generated universe. Harvest ...