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 ...

The idea that the cosmos might be alive is moving from late-night speculation into serious, if controversial, scientific ...

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

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

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

While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

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 ...

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Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

SAINT-MICHEL OBSERVATORY, FRANCE–(Marketwire -07/25/12)- Cosmos Story, the first audio and visual guided journey through the universe, is now available for iPad and iPhone. Co-created by an ...

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 ...

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 ...