Once charted as a 'guest star' in ancient China, dreaded as a harbinger of ill omens in medieval Europe, and preserved in the ...

Here’s one of the most unsettling facts in all of science. The universe is not just expanding, it’s expanding faster and ...

An international research coalition has successfully verified that the expansion of the universe is accelerating ...

A bold claim that the universe’s accelerating expansion was an illusion has been put to the test—and failed. Researchers ...

In recent years, whenever astronomers have gazed into the night sky, they’ve noticed something peculiar: Some of its massive stars—the true titans of the cosmos—appear to be missing. The largest of ...

The bestselling card game that RIT alumnus Elan Lee ’98 (computer science) created nearly 10 years ago is exploding into a universe. Exploding Kittens, the animated series based on the game, premiered ...

The universe is almost 13.8 billion years old, but every now and then, astronomers detect echoes from its distant past. One such occasion occurred earlier in 2025, when NASA scientists reported ...

Nobel laureates Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt co-authored a June 2026 rebuttal correcting two errors in a 2025 South Korean ...

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

Stars at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, via the Spitzer Space telescope - credit NASA, JPL-Caltech, S Stolovy (SSCCaltech). Our understanding of the universe remains solid, say astronomers whose ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...