About a year after launching into orbit around the Sun, the James Webb Space Telescope began imaging an abundance of little red dots, which scientists called, um, “little red dots.” I know—not only is ...

A former Harvard professor links modern cosmology with scripture, suggesting heaven may exist beyond the universe’s Cosmic ...

Welcome to the age of precision cosmology, a scientific era in which astronomers and physicists have measured almost everything about our universe—except for its deepest mysteries: dark matter and ...

The UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy has established a research program in modern cosmology – an entirely new field of research at the university. The new program builds upon the ...

Dark matter remains one of the most compelling enigmas in modern cosmology. Although it does not emit light, its gravitational influence is essential for the formation and evolution of cosmic ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. When you purchase ...

The discovery that the universe extends beyond the Milky Way galaxy was a pivotal moment in astronomy. In 1925, astronomer Edwin Hubble identified a Cepheid variable star, known as V1, in the ...

Modern cosmology reveals a universe expanding uniformly without a spatial center or edge. The Big Bang wasn't a localized explosion but a simultaneous expansion of space everywhere. Galaxies aren't ...