Universe

A dying star swallowing a giant planet hints at the fate awaiting our solar system some five billion years from now

New research attempts to discern how bizarre particles of strange matter form in the nuclei of atoms

For centuries, scientific discoveries have suggested humanity occupies no privileged place in the universe. Now, however, studies of worlds beyond our solar system could place meaningful new limits on our existential mediocrity

We now know that the first galaxies in our universe formed shockingly fast, thanks to the latest results from the James Webb Space Telescope

A candidate “rogue” supermassive black hole may weigh as much as 20 million suns and has sparked a trail of star formation that is 200,000 light-years long

Do efforts to create life—by cooking up imitations in computers, robots and molecules—point toward a universal definition of biology?

Looming gaps in astronomers’ views of the heavens could undercut the revolutionary potential of NASA’s latest, greatest space telescope

The “absolutely monstrous” cosmic blast is estimated to be a one-in-10,000-year event

A new study suggests that ‘Oumuamua, the mysterious visitor that whizzed through our solar system in 2017, may have been merely a small comet from another star

Before exploding as supernovae, massive Wolf-Rayet stars spew gas and dust into space, seeding the formation of future stellar and planetary systems

A first-of-its-kind probe brings physicists one step closer to solving the proton radius puzzle

A lab-made black hole is beyond current technology but could be possible one day