"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big ...

A supercomputer’s model of the universe A sample of simulations showing a model of the expanding universe (left) and a zoomed-in view of tracer particles (right).

How Our View of the Ancient Universe Could Slowly Fade Away The worsening climate crisis may soon obstruct the eyes of our ground-based telescopes: "We will literally have less to look at." ...

Taking a Larger View of the Universe Once it’s launched into outer space in 2027, NASA’s next telescope will provide the “big picture” of the universe. But for two Duke scientists, preparations are ...

In our view, that new philosophy should position science not as a god collecting pebbles of absolute truth, but as a self-correcting narrative that humans co-create with the world around us.

Deepest Infrared View of the UniverseVLT Images Progenitors of Today’s Large Galaxies [1] Images Summary An international team of astronomers [2] has made the deepest-ever near-infrared Ks-band ...

Two new studies suggest that galaxies may be surrounded by vast halos of dark matter extending at least 1.5 million light-years from each galaxy's center.

This logarithmic view of the Universe shows our solar system, the galaxy, the cosmic web, and the limits of what's observable out to a distance of 46.1 billion light-years away. This view is only ...