Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe ...

The question of whether the cosmos goes on forever is no longer just a late night thought experiment, it is a live research ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

"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." ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—the long-awaited successor to the Hubble Space Telescope—becomes operational in 2022, one of its first orders of business will be mapping the earliest ...

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 ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with data ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just two years of operations, but how can it see a galaxy 33.8 billion light-years away in a universe that is only 13.8 billion years old ...

The search for the universe’s center starts with a simple intuition: if everything exploded outward in the Big Bang, there must be a point it all came from. Modern cosmology turns that intuition ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter develop from it.