Dark energy is still a mystery, but powerful new telescopes are set to uncover clues. With NASA and ESA leading the charge, ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

We call what we can see the “Observable” Universe. Although Einstein's Theory of Relativity states material objects cannot move through space faster than light, a result that has been ...

Star formation in the early universe was a vigorous process that created gigantic stars. Called Population III stars, these giants were massive, extremely luminous stars that lived short lives ...

NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of a new universe Date: January 15, 2025 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun ...

Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space Telescope might not have broken our understanding of the universe, after all. Previously, astronomers used Webb to spot ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The ...

This discovery, enabled by gravitational lensing, sets a new record for observing distant stars and opens new avenues for understanding dark matter and the universe’s structure at its early stages.

For example, we do now know that habitable environments are very common in the universe. It is reasonable to generalise from here to a truly gargantuan number of habitable environments across the ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more differences in temperature anywhere, which means thermodynamics shuts down, ...