NASA’s SPHEREx mission, which launched in March 2025, is poised to transform our understanding of the universe. By creating ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

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

Machine learning can help tighten constraints on the overarchingFor almost as long as humans have existed, we have been ...

Could the universe be spinning like a giant top? This idea, proposed by physicist Nikodem Poplawski, opens surprising perspectives concerning dark energy and the structure of ...

Observations of the most distant object yet discovered go a long way in supporting astronomers' models of the early Universe. But the far-flung galaxy, details of which are published in Nature ...

A faint radio glow reveals a million-light-year halo enveloping one of the earliest galaxy clusters, hinting that energetic ...

The release gives the largest look at the deep universe ever, providing data for scientists to make future discoveries. Already, scientists have found a treasure trove of early galaxies. COSMOS-Web ...

The aforementioned models of the cosmos, including the standard model of cosmology, have long posited the idea that the ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

The telescope that Hubble used to make his Universe-changing discovery was commissioned in 1917, yet we would have found absolutely no other galaxies at all from MCG+01-02-015's perspective ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The farther away a galaxy is from us in this expanding Universe ...