The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

“For the last 20 years, people believed that the cosmological constant is positive, and the universe will expand forever,” says Tye, a professor emeritus at Cornell. A positive constant acts like a ...

Long before telescopes and space travel, ancient civilizations had incredibly creative ideas about what the universe looked like and how it worked. These beliefs shaped culture, religion, and even ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to spot a galaxy so distant that it sends us an image of the cosmos just 280 million years after the Big Bang. This observation thus offers ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

Physicist Sean Carroll explains how physics, astronomy, philosophy, and classics all help us understand the expanding ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with data ...

Today we are going to talk about cosmology and the fact that black holes were considered as an almost unbelievable idea. In the 30s, British astronomer Arthur ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...