Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

So much happened in the earliest moments of the universe. Elementary particles appeared, the first nuclei of hydrogen and ...

A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device ...

A novel imaging technique used for the first time on a ground-based telescope has helped a UCLA-led team of astronomers to ...

Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

Astronomers have long thought the universe should look generally the same in every direction, but an anomaly in the radiation ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A tiny sliver of the new COSMOS map showing an incredibly diverse collection of galaxies, created ...

The 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate raised new and profound questions about the nature and fate of the universe. Based on measurements of the speed of distant ...

Kepler-452b is one of the most Earth-like planets ever discovered, orbiting a star much like our Sun. Located over 1,400 ...

Comet C/2025 A6 — also known as Lemmon — will make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday night, Oct. 21, and will continue ...