Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized ...

The 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate raised new and profound questions about the nature and fate of the universe. Based on measurements of the speed of distant ...

The small but ubiquitous proton serves as a foundation for the bulk of the visible matter in the universe. It abides at the ...

Sometimes, a picture can be worth much more than a thousand words. For instance, one measure associated with the pictures below—new high-definition snapshots of the cosmos in its infancy—is 1,900 ...

On 1 January 1925, US astronomer Henry Norris Russell made a startling announcement to the American Astronomical Society in Washington DC: observations by fellow astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A tiny sliver of the new COSMOS map showing an incredibly diverse collection of galaxies, created ...

Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of 'hidden' galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it ...

A new calculation of the end of the Universe suggests that the end of all things will come a lot sooner than our previous calculations indicated. Once the Hawking-like radiation emitted by everything ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The 18-story silhouette of the nearly completed Vera C. Rubin Observatory loomed above as I looked over a field of construction remnants a few weeks back. Beside ...

There’s more to the universe than meets the eye, he found. His studies led astronomy to the dark side, changing our view of what’s out there. By Dennis Overbye Jeremiah Ostriker, an astrophysicist who ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...