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

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered the farthest-ever 'mini-halo,' a sea of charged particles around a distant galaxy cluster that ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Smith, the former Astronomer Royal, who has died aged 102, was a pioneer of radio astronomy, carrying out research which ...

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to the emergence of stars marks a critical shift known as Cosmic ...

The U.S.-funded Rubin Observatory will chart the entire southern cosmos over the next decade.

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...