Everything humanity has ever touched, measured, or imagined as “normal” matter is a tiny sliver of reality. Less than 5 ...

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Down on humanity lately? Consider the following fact, which should fill you with pride for your species. Little more than a century ago, humans believed that our universe consisted solely of the Milky ...

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 ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

The most accepted theory of the origin of the universe is still the Big Bang. The theory proposes the universe started from a small singularity (the gravitational kind), then began to expand over the ...

Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Carl Sagan's original 'Cosmos.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new season of the ...

The universe's expansion is accelerating due to dark energy. Star formation will eventually cease. Black holes will be the last remaining matter. The universe will eventually reach a state of maximum ...

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 ...