Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” Carl Sagan once warned a maxim now resonating through telescopes worldwide as astronomers grapple with a mind-bending new discovery. The James ...

The first-ever artificial intelligence simulation of the universe seems to work like the real thing -- and is almost as mysterious.Researchers reported the new simulation June 24 in the journal ...

The Universe presents an extraordinary level of balance that has fascinated scientists and thinkers for centuries. From the ...

Whereas in ordinary three-dimensional space it takes a two-dimensional object (a surface) to create a boundary inside a black hole, in the bulk universe the event horizon of a 4D black hole would ...

And finally, tonight, what could be the brightest known object in the universe, estimated by scientists to be emitting light, that's a mind boggling 500 trillion times more intense than the sun.

The idea suggests that a parallel universe that mirrors our own could explain the existence of dark matter, one of the ...

Many of the Universe's Unexplored Objects Exist In This Icy, Doughnut-Shaped Region When Kuiper Belt objects were discovered, it spawned a new view of the Solar System. This created more questions.

But the biggest known black hole can be found powering a distant quasar — gigantic objects in the early universe spewing out insane amounts of radiation.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy.

The first-ever artificial intelligence simulation of the universe seems to work like the real thing -- and is almost as mysterious.Researchers reported the new simulation June 24 in the journal ...

According to a paper published this past week in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists found what could be the brightest known object in the universe: a quasar produced by a massive and ...