A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...

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

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles—a "mini halo"—surrounding one of the most distant galaxy clusters ever observed, marking a major step forward in understanding the hidden ...

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

A distant galaxy 12 billion light-years away shows signs of being a jellyfish galaxy, with trailing streams of gas caused by ...

Already, scientists have found a treasure trove of early galaxies. COSMOS-Web provides the largest view deep into the universe ever, and now an easily searchable catalog with all of the data is ...

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 COSMOS-Web composite image reaches back about 13.5 billion years; according to NASA, the universe is about 13.8 billion years old, give or take one hundred million years.

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