This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In ...

On a clear night far from city lights, the Milky Way stretches overhead as a pale band, yet most of the sky between those ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

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

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct a wide-area survey to study dark matter, dark energy, and the expansion of the universe across 11 billion light-years.

Will two rare supernovas finally tell us how fast the universe is expanding? Perhaps, but we'll have to wait for it for them ...

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Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

They shaped the Universe, yet the first stars ever born continue to evade the searches of astronomers like Dr Emma Chapman ...

Artist Ashley Zelinskie is "Wandering through Time and Space”' with ESA's Webb team. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...