Astronomers have discovered that billions of comets in an icy shell around the solar system called the Oort Cloud mimic the ...

Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe. They are the core of a collapsed megastar ... Like any ...

Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library via Getty Images Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the universe. It’s essentially a giant cluster of galaxy clusters stretching ...

The team behind new research on the topic suggests that measuring whether gravitational waves from black hole mergers are right- or left-handed can tell us if the Cosmological Principle — an ...

At least… we think that’s Nicholas Galitzine? It’s hard to say for sure, considering the promotional image is mostly all about the Sword Of Power—the fantasy hero’s blade of choice—casting the ...

The expansion of the Universe is not constant ... Our Sun is on one of the spiral arms as shown in the diagram: The Sun's orbital speed is determined almost entirely by the gravitational pull ...

This radiation is now used to 'map' the early Universe. The diagram below is a heat map showing that temperature was not evenly distributed. This is a whole sky Planck space telescope image of the ...