Across physics, biology and philosophy, a once-fringe idea is gaining new intellectual weight: the possibility that the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a stellar explosion from a time when the cosmos was still in its infancy, catching ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...