A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Combining the Standard Model of cosmology with the rigid constraints enforced by observations of cosmic microwave background radiation tells us that structures including stars, black holes, and gas ...

Astronomers detect an ultramassive black hole weighing 36 billion suns in the galaxy LRG 3-757, a record thanks to ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the ...

Did The universe really begin with a bang, a bounce? The theory that the universe is both possibly having endured a sudden ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general ...

Suppose the birth of the universe was not a definite start, but a cosmological rebound far within a black hole? This radical idea has been picking up steam as new theoretical research, spearheaded by ...

HISD students' biology scores improved more than any other subject during state intervention. Ninth-grade students at NES ...

Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful ...