Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

To explore this long-standing mystery, an international team of scientists formed a group known as the Collaboration for ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Cosmologists are quietly confronting a possibility that would have sounded absurd a generation ago: the standard picture of a ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), detecting a supernova—the explosive death of a massive star—at an ...

A USF professor and research team are using two NASA grants and the Hubble Space Telescope to test the mathematical model of ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.