Explore big discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of the universe. How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how ...

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 ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is forcing cosmologists to redraw the schedule of the early cosmos. Structures that were ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries of ...

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.

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A new half-sky image from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope combines three wavelengths of light to show the Milky Way galaxy in purple and the cosmic microwave background in gray. On the right, the ...