The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to deliver awe-inspiring views of the cosmos and the art world has taken ...

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Astrophysicists have presumed for nearly a century that the universe will just keep expanding for all eternity, driven by an ...

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...

No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp ...

We’ve grown up with the idea that the universe will expand forever, meaning the "cosmological constant" is positive. What if ...

The first fast radio burst, or FRB, was discovered in 2007 in archival data collected back in 2001, and scientists were ...

A new study argues that dark matter and dark energy might be illusions caused by the universe’s forces fading over time. For ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research touch nearly every aspect of ...

This hypothesis is not new. It was given the affectionate nickname of Big Crunch, and says that the accelerated expansion of ...