New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For decades, scientists have held that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old ...

Star clusters are collections of thousands to millions of stars bound together by gravity — and many can be observed in the night sky with binoculars or a small telescope. One notable example is ω ...

Recent findings suggest a potential shift in our understanding of the universe’s expansion. After decades of acceleration, ...

The Roman telescope will track 100,000 cosmic explosions, revealing how the early universe expanded and offering new clues ...

OK, so let’s start with the obvious. The Big Bang is not dead. Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope have not disproven the big bang, despite certain popular articles claiming ...

In 1929 Edwin Hubble published the first solid evidence that the universe is expanding. Drawing upon data from Vesto Slipher and Henrietta Leavitt, Hubble demonstrated a correlation between galactic ...

Astronomers might just have peered back to the dawn of starlight-not in a time machine, but through a cosmic magnifying glass ...

Galaxies in the universe trace patterns on very large scales; there are large empty regions (called “voids”) and dense regions where the galaxies exist. This distribution is called the cosmic web. The ...