The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests ...

A new study from an international team of researchers suggests that the universe may be "lopsided", and it could be a huge ...

The primordial architect might have eloped into hiding and hid the secrets of their remarkable creation, but NASA scientists ...

The three-dimensional view will help scientists learn more about the origins of life in the Milky Way galaxy and how the ...

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

NASA’s SPHEREx has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, which are invisible to the human eye but can be used to ...

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

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...

"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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have used supercomputers to create a "synthetic universe" that will help predict what the next generation of super-telescopes will see upon opening their eyes to the cosmos. These ...