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

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

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the building blocks of galaxies during their formative years. The CRISTAL ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

"Fast radio bursts shine through the fog of the intergalactic medium, and by precisely measuring how the light slows down, we can weigh that fog, even when it's too faint to see." ...

The expanding universe is one of the most fascinating and far-reaching discoveries in modern science. At its core lies a ...

The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...