The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

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 ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

Down on humanity lately? Consider the following fact, which should fill you with pride for your species. Little more than a century ago, humans believed that our universe consisted solely of the Milky ...

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