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 ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, built ...

How an innocent quest for scientific knowledge opened up a deadly can of worms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Neil deGrasse ...

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 ...

Explore big discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of the universe. How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how ...

Back in the mid-1990s, cosmologists—who study the origin, composition and structure of the universe—were beginning to worry that they were facing a crisis. For starters, two astronomers had observed ...

The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves ...