The first stars in the universe blazed to life about 200 to 400 million years…
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Cosmology is the scientific study of the origin, structure, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe. It explores the largest scales of space and time, seeking to understand phenomena such as the Big Bang, cosmic inflation, dark matter, and dark energy. By combining observations from telescopes, satellites, and large-scale surveys with theoretical physics, cosmologists aim to unravel how the universe began, how it has changed over billions of years, and what its ultimate destiny might be. As new data from missions like the James Webb Space Telescope and surveys like DESI emerge, cosmology continues to shed light on some of the most profound questions in science.
Analysis of gravitational lensing data by an international research team reveals that the evolution of…
Astronomers are beginning to understand what happens when black holes get the urge to roam…
A ‘deep learning’ algorithm trained on images from cosmological simulations has been surprisingly successful at…
NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its fourth year of…
Researchers have developed a new way to improve our knowledge of the Big Bang by…
Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance…
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have completed an unprecedented “dissection” of twin galaxies…
Can we tell black holes apart? Astrophysicists at Goethe University Frankfurt answer this question by…
University of Miami astrophysicist Nico Cappelluti studies the sky. An assistant professor in the Physics…
This dramatic infrared image shows the nearby star formation region Monoceros R2, located some 2700…
A “core-collapse” supernova occurs when the iron core of a massive star collapses under the…
Planets orbiting “short-period” binary stars, or stars locked in close orbital embrace, can be ejected…
On a mission to detect planets outside of our solar system, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey…
A well-known experiment with young people bouncing a ball showed that when an observer focuses…
The SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows astronomers to suppress…
Scientists have decoded faint distortions in the patterns of the universe’s earliest light to map…
A telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to listen to a mysterious cigar-shaped…