On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, astrophysicists have spotted what they say is compelling evidence of ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have found the most "pristine" star in the universe to date. According to the team, the gas that formed this star may have come from an elusive "population III" ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly every aspect of modern life.

We know how the universe began. An event we call the Big Bang started it all about 13.8 billion years ago. How the universe ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best one," Professor Gupta said. "Maybe the universe’s biggest secrets are just ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized ...

Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...