The idea that gravity shapes the universe into nicely bounded superclusters is being overturned by a finding so gargantuan that it could send cosmologists back to the drawing board. The new mapping of ...

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs." When you purchase through links on our ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Greetings, earthlings! I’m Jackie Wattles, and I’m thrilled ...

NASA has released a stunning new map of the cosmos, one that the agency says could help scientists solve some of the universe’s longstanding mysteries. Taken using the agency’s SPHEREx space telescope ...

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has combined 100+ infrared maps into the universe’s first all-sky cosmic atlas, revealing galaxies, interstellar clouds, and cosmic inflation patterns never seen before.

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, stellar formation and galaxy evolution. When you purchase through links on our ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale. Reading time 2 minutes Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute ...