Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an ...

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

Was the Big Bang really the beginning of the universe, or are we 'bouncing' between periods of expansion and contraction? A ...

Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets.

Crucially, this bounce occurs entirely within the framework of general relativity, which applies on large scales such as ...

Either we are uncovering something entirely new, or we’re seeing a known type of object emitting radio and X-ray waves in a ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

By combining data from the Subaru Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have discovered distant quasars that ...