Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds. For ...

The universe has already formed most of its stars and may fade into darkness, but leftover matter could one day trigger a new ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Learn what a black hole is, how it forms, and how astronomers detect it. Understand the science behind black holes and their ...

Physicists have taken the Universe’s temperature, revealing the searing trillion-degree heat of the Big Bang’s first plasma.

The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...

Astronomers working hard at NASA have found a star that could be older than the universe. But is that even possibile? This ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.