Bang! Whiz! Pop! The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to ...

It started with a hunch. Or more accurately, a glow. Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope were combing through ...

IDC has just released estimates that this year, the Digital Universe — meaning every electronically stored piece of data or file out there — will reach 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes, this ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The nearly 30-year-old Hubble Space telescope continues to deliver outstanding data to ...

Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...

We have bad news for any cosmologists out there: you have a lot of work ahead of you. There's long been a discrepancy between the calculated, theoretical rate at which the universe ought to be ...

A mysterious population of glowing red dots scattered across the early universe has led astronomers to a startling new theory ...

It's hard to grasp the sheer amount of astronomical data that came online this week in a 1.6-petabyte data-dump from a Hawaiian telescope, but picture 30,000 Wikipedias or 15 Libraries of Congress. At ...