Down on humanity lately? Consider the following fact, which should fill you with pride for your species. Little more than a century ago, humans believed that our universe consisted solely of the Milky ...

In a new study published in The Open Journal of Astrophysics, scientists have unveiled a new mapping of the universe’s ...

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 ...

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Astronomers are closing in on a result so statistically secure that, in their language, it borders on certainty: a 99.9999999 ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

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 ...

Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Carl Sagan's original 'Cosmos.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new season of the ...

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 ...