A team of astronomers from Maryland, Hawaii, Israel, and France has produced the most detailed…
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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.
Scientists measure the magnetic field of the black hole binary V404 Cygni, revealing a significantly…
Astronomers expect that the first galaxies, those that formed just a few hundred million years…
A team of astronomers, including two from MIT, has detected the most distant supermassive black…
A whole lot of zig-zagging: Perhaps that is what happens when the universe’s mysterious dark…
The Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) has successfully made its…
Taking a picture of an exoplanet—a planet in a solar system beyond our sun—is no…
The dust that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko emits into space consists of about one-half of organic molecules.…
The Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since…
Correction: A follow-up paper by Barth & Stern (2018) has shown that the evidence for…
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the…
A study led by a researcher at the IAC and published today in Nature Astronomy…
At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole,…
“I believe the Big Bang never happened,” said Juliano César Silva Neves, a physicist at…
This artist’s rendering shows the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li, where a star wandering too…
Astronomers used data from Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s Gaia satellite to directly measure the…
NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility, or IRTF, gave comet 45P a thorough astronomical checkup as it…
When our Sun erupts with giant explosions — such as bursts of radiation called solar…