Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

The universe is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year lifespan, a Cornell physicist calculates with new data from ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

George Fitzgerald Smoot III, whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe ...

For centuries, cartographers have sought to map Earth’s land masses and seas to better understand the world and their place in it. Now, astrophysicists have taken a major step toward doing the same ...

The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its lens last spring, extremely distant yet very bright galaxies immediately ...

Physical cosmology, as a branch of astrophysics, is the study of the large-scale structure of the universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its formation and evolution. Cosmology ...

Thomas Kitching receives funding from the Royal Society, and the Science & Technology Facilities Council. Science is advancing rapidly. We are eradicating diseases, venturing further into space and ...