Physicists are quietly entertaining one of the strangest ideas in modern cosmology: that the cosmos we see might be only half ...

Cosmologists have long treated black holes and the Big Bang as separate extremes of physics, one swallowing light, the other ...

The tension started to emerge from different datasets in the 2000s, mainly from the Hubble space telescope, and also recent data from the Gaia satellite. This tension is a cosmological disagreement, ...

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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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 ...

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 cosmic dipole anomaly has thus established itself as a major challenge to the standard cosmological model, even if the ...

Space telescopes are typically optimized either to study a small patch of the sky across many wavelengths of light or to ...

Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Carl Sagan's original 'Cosmos.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new season of the ...

Sure, they're not your typical baby pictures. But a global team of researchers says new images published this week show some of the clearest visualizations yet of the universe in its infancy. If our ...