At a beachfront convention center in Cancún, Mexico, last December, Seshadri Nadathur presented a confidential growth chart of the universe. Seated in the audience, hundreds of his fellow scientists ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the remains of a frozen, Pluto-like world being devoured by a distant white dwarf star.

It's found in Omega Centauri, the remains of a cannibalized galaxy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Using the Hubble Space ...

You could swim through the deepest voids and encounter a single hydrogen atom in an entire football field's worth of space. At the very largest scales, galaxies are not scattered around randomly.