New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For ...

Did light shine in the universe’s earliest moments, or was it hidden from view? While this question may seem simple at first, ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

Now, Webb has also shed some light on one of the important sources of our early universe’s evolution. The galaxies that we know and see today were not always how we see them.

The universe was a cold, dark place 10 million years after the Big Bang. Hydrogen gas began to clump together 100 million years later, forming dense regions (white) that gave birth to the first ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

For years, scientists have worked to chart the universe’s massive structure, aiming to test key models of cosmology. These ...

THE discovery of the red shift in the spectra of distant stellar galaxies revealed the important fact that our universe is in the state of uniform expansion, and raised an interesting question as ...

The universe won’t do anything for us except give us the freedom to exist. What we do with that existence is entirely up to us. It is our responsibility to imbue the cosmos with meaning and purpose.