Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Cosmologists are quietly confronting a possibility that would have sounded absurd a generation ago: the standard picture of a ...

Imagine staring into a hall of mirrors at a Sheesh Mahal, where every reflection bounces endlessly, making it hard to tell ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

Astronomers studying the largest-ever map of the cosmos have found hints that our best understanding of the universe is due a major rewrite. The analysis, which looked at nearly 15 million galaxies ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it now. The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb ...

As the James Webb Space Telescope reveals supermassive black holes are on the move – at two million miles per hour no less – ...

But there are several important anomalies, including a widely debated one called the Hubble tension. It is named after Edwin Hubble, who is credited with having discovered in 1929 that the universe is ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

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 ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...