When you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the Universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties.

A new study suggests the universe may rotate -- just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest puzzles.

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

If this scenario plays out, “the world as we know it would collapse like a house of cards,” says one theoretical physicist.

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ...

A n intriguing new study suggests that the universe may rotate once every 500 billion years. If correct, the authors believe that it could explain one of the most annoying puzzles in astronomic ...

For the first time in history, we can explore the universe through a rich blend of senses—seeing, touching, and hearing astronomical data—in ways that deepen our understanding of space. While ...

New observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile reveal the earliest-ever "baby pictures" of our universe, showing some of the oldest light we can possibly see.

New data involving millions of galaxies and luminous galactic cores is providing fresh evidence that the enigmatic and ...