Astronomers use the Hubble constant to calculate the age and size of the Universe, the distances to objects beyond our galaxy, and the influence of dark energy. If we start whacking recklessly at this ...

As soon as the end of February, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will launch a new telescope into orbit around the Earth called SPHEREx. Its goal is to examine nothing less than the essential ...

It will be a view unlike any other — completely invisible, exceptionally quiet and utterly transformative. Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes ...

Astronomers have been mapping vast cosmic structures for decades, from galaxy clusters to immense superclusters. But now, researchers have identified what they say is officially the largest known ...

A researcher has made a puzzling discovery while analyzing observations taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. While analyzing images for the telescope’s Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES ...

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by 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 ...

The vast realm probed by radio astronomers is one invisible to the naked eye, and even most kinds of telescopes. Now, thanks to the latest advances in radio observatories, scientists are uncovering an ...