In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

The largest magnetic fields in the universe may have found themselves charged up when the first stars began to shine, ...

For a long time, astronomers believed galaxy formation followed a very specific model: cosmic gas collects in clumps, stars ...

"Studying the rate at which galaxies formed lets us directly test our theories and, so far, we’re lining up with what general ...

The Epoch of Reionization — the universe’s last major transition — may have happened earlier than previously thought.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of binary star systems, consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence star ...

Miss Universe leaders Anne Jakrajutatip and Raul Rocha also shared comments by Elon Musk praising the pageant for picking a ...

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar ...

A galaxy racing through space at an astonishing speed of two million mph (3.2 million km/h) has created a dramatic collision.

Victoria Kjaer Theilvig from Denmark is under fire for using the N-word in a viral video over a week after she was crowned ...