Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful evidence of dark matter. Her groundbreaking work revealed that most of the ...

The incredible new find was only possible thanks to the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Horseshoe. Credit: ESA/Hubble Last week, astronomers announced the discovery of an unimaginably large black ...

Editor’s Note (3/10/25): After a week of delays, NASA is hoping to launch SPHEREx and PUNCH on March 10 at 11:10 P.M. EDT, officials wrote in a statement. NASA is ready to launch a space telescope to ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

A small group of young researchers at the Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have, through ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...