Resembling a swarm of flickering fireflies, this beautiful galaxy cluster glows intensely in the dark…
Browsing: Cosmology
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.
Astronomers using ESO’s MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a…
Five new planets have been discovered outside our solar system, all orbiting a sun-like star…
The first six hexagonal segments for the main mirror of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT)…
Researchers using a suite of telea supermassive black hole blowing huge bubbles of hot, bright…
In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using…
When scientists searching for exoplanets — worlds located beyond our solar system — first spotted…
At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., scientists…
Observations by NASA’s Swift spacecraft, now renamed the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the mission’s…
A rapidly growing black hole — known as an active galactic nuclei — has been…
A new visualization provides an exceptional virtual trip — complete with a 360-degree view —…
Astronomers are observing star-forming regions in our galaxy with NASA’s flying telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory…
Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered…
Recent observations of a mysterious and distant object that emits intermittent bursts of radio waves…
Through first-of-their-kind supercomputer simulations, researchers, including a Northwestern University professor, have gained new insight into…
Astronomers from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, Northwestern University, and the University of…
The direct detection of gravitational waves from at least five sources during the past two…
The spots on the surface of the Sun come and go with an 11-year periodicity…