So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...

A team led by an astronomer at North Carolina State University used four space telescopes to figure out why the first documented supernova was super-sized. State’s Brian J. Williams is the lead author ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, and is generally regarded ...

UGC 2885, a spiral galaxy significantly larger than the Milky Way, is predominantly composed of dark matter (approximately 85% of its mass), as discovered by Vera Rubin. Despite the success of the Big ...

For the first time in history, astronomers have been able to watch as a dying star was reborn as a black hole. It went out with a whimper instead of a bang. For the first time in history, astronomers ...

In his Allegory of the Cave, Greek philosopher Plato described prisoners who have spent their entire lives chained to the wall of a dark cavern. Behind the prisoners lies a flame, and between the ...

Astronomers have captured the largest explosion ever recorded in the Universe since the Big Bang as massive stars get ripped apart by black holes. Called 'extreme nuclear transients', or ENTs, this ...

The new data seem to indicate that the cosmological constant is negative, and that the universe will end in a Big Crunch,” ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a star disappear right before their eyes. Known as N6946-BH1, the star appears to have collapsed into a black hole without the usual flair of a supernova ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- For the first time in history, astronomers have been able to watch as a dying star was reborn as a black hole. It went out with a whimper instead of a bang. The star, which was 25 ...