The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

Today we are going to talk about cosmology and the fact that black holes were considered as an almost unbelievable idea. In the 30s, British astronomer Arthur ...

Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

So cosmologists feel confident in modelling the universe using the “maximally symmetric” description of space-time in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This symmetric vision for the universe, ...

"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up." ...

Long before telescopes and space travel, ancient civilizations had incredibly creative ideas about what the universe looked ...

"Although there have been multiple efforts to understand the nature of dark energy, its composition, and its manifestation in the universe," one expert says, "we know embarrassingly little about it." ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

The Big Bang: The moment when the universe — everything in existence — began. ... Right? Turns out, it's not quite that simple. Today, when scientists talk about the Big Bang, they mean a period of ...

Scientists hope SPHEREx will provide data lending new insights into the origins of the universe and whether the ingredients for life exist anywhere else in our Milky Way galaxy. The telescope launched ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...