Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic ...

About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed like a contradiction in Albert Einstein's theory of ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

How the pioneering scientist, and namesake of an enormous new telescope, forced astronomers to rethink the universe.

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

An illustration of the cosmic web, the universe’s large-scale structure of composed of galaxy-rich clumps and filaments alongside giant intergalactic ...

For instance, it’s hard to imagine something as big as the universe not having a center at all, but physics says that’s the reality. First, let’s define what’s meant by “expansion.” ...

The thing we think of as the "center" of the balloon is a point somewhere in its interior, in the air-filled space beneath the surface. But in this analogy, the universe is more like the latex ...

For centuries, humans have looked to the stars and wondered about the universe’s vastness, shape, and structure. One question ...

The Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiments (FLARE) represents the next generation of research into fundamental ...