Our existence rests on a razor‑thin imbalance in the early cosmos. When the universe was young, matter and antimatter should ...

Dark matter seems invisible, but it makes up most matter, and we have evidence that it gives the cosmos its shape. Now ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

As the James Webb Space Telescope reveals supermassive black holes are on the move – at two million miles per hour no less – ...

The Universe has long been cast as effectively immortal, coasting into a cold, dark eternity so distant that it might as well ...

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

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