The curious minds at What If discover the universe’s evolution in just ten minutes, covering the Big Bang, galaxy formation, and cosmic expansion.

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole new model to account for gravity’s influence.

Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

Scientists are starting to notice something unsettling: parts of the universe aren’t behaving the way the “trusted” rules say ...

The new research suggests an alternative origin. Dark matter could have instead been born extremely hot, opening up ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Astronomers believe this barred spiral galaxy could be the oldest example of its kind ever observed. Research led by Daniel ...

Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with ...

Smaller cats had a few advantages. They need less food. Plus, they’re spry. Massive lions are successful hunters just 20% of the time. But African wildcats bring down a whopping 60% of their prey.

New Hubble observations explain how blue straggler stars form, showing that binary systems in low-density clusters play a key role ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...