Isolation dictates where we go to see into the far reaches of the universe. The Atacama Desert of Chile, the summit of Mauna ...

Scientists have detected ancient microwave signals from the universe's early days. These signals, over 13 billion years old, ...

How could the Universe form such dense and extremely hot structures only 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang? This question emerges with the recent discovery of a galaxy cluster that challenges ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors using observations made between May and December 2025. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope — launched in ...

Subir Sarkar receives funding from the UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) councils. The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study ...

Douglas Scott is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He collaborated with George Smoot at Berkeley. Joseph Silk is professor of physics at ...

The popular consensus among scientists is that the universe will continue expanding until the bitter end. A team of researchers is now pumping the brakes on that idea. A new theory promises to ...

"By reproducing relativistic plasma conditions in the lab, we can measure processes that shape the evolution of cosmic jets and better understand the origin of magnetic fields in intergalactic space." ...

Very early dark energy (vEDE) may have accelerated the universe’s expansion just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, according to newly published research. This proposed form of dark energy would have ...