Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

In this episode of Physics World Stories, host Andrew Glester explores the fascinating hunt for pristine comets – icy bodies ...

This cosmic question mark, seen in 2024, is courtesy of galaxy cluster MACS-J0417.5-1154, which is so massive that it is ...

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A decades-old idea is quietly regaining attention in theoretical physics: ancient structures embedded in the universe’s ...

Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those forces—magnetism—emerged in ways scientists are only now beginning to ...

The "Cosmic Grapes" galaxy formed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, revealing a never-before-seen structure.

For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the faint glow of the diffuse cosmic web that stretches throughout the known the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

In the moments before the Big Bang, our universe was a hot, dense, and extremely high-energy place. That all changed when the universe exploded 13.8 billion years ago. Rapid inflation divided a single ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast tendril of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters and stretching out for 23 million light-years, 230 times the length of our galaxy. With 10 times the mass of the ...