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

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 ...

Imagine staring into a hall of mirrors at a Sheesh Mahal, where every reflection bounces endlessly, making it hard to tell ...

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

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

Astronomers realized that a strange cloud of gas was actually a relic of the ancient universe which might help solve some of ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

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

Scientists are relatively certain that the observable universe is relatively flat, but in terms of the cosmos’s global topography, uncertainty reigns. A new study from an international scientific ...

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