Cosmology
Soar Past Thousands of Galaxies in the Early Universe in Thrilling 3D
Want to visit the most distant galaxy in the early Universe? Now you can via a fantastic visualization created from…
JWST Sees the Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole
As astronomers push our views of the Universe further back in time, their telescopes keep uncovering surprises. That's the case…
The Early Universe Ran in Slow Motion
One of Einstein's predictions is that we should see time moving at different rates at different ages of the Universe.…
ESA's Euclid Mission is Off to Explore the Dark Universe
The Euclid space telescope, the ESA's next-generation astrophysics mission, was successfully launched to space!
James Webb is a GO for Cycle 2 Observations!
The observation programs for Cycle 2 of the James Webb Space Telescope have just been announced, and they are a…
Gravitational Waves Can Be Gravitationally Lensed, and This Could Provide Another Way to Measure the Expansion of the Universe
Astronomers can never have enough ways to measure the expansion in the Universe, from nearby stars to distant quasars. A…
JWST Sees the Beginning of the Cosmic Web
The Cosmic Web is the large-scale structure of the Universe. If you could watch our cosmos unfold from the Big…
Dark Matter Might Interact in a Totally Unexpected Way With the Universe
A new theory of Dark Matter suggests that it interact with normal matter in a non-localized way, potentially revolutionizing our…
Two New Space Telescopes Will Bring Dark Energy Into Focus
The ESA's Euclid and NASA's Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will work together to resolve the mystery of cosmic expansion!
Why Didn’t the Big Bang Collapse in a Giant Black Hole?
Despite the enormous densities, the early universe didn't collapse into a black hole because, simply put, there was nothing to…