"The cosmic dipole anomaly has thus established itself as a major challenge to the standard cosmological model, even if the ...

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 ...

Explore big discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of the universe. How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how ...

Space telescopes are typically optimized either to study a small patch of the sky across many wavelengths of light or to ...

But there are several important anomalies, including a widely debated one called the Hubble tension. It is named after Edwin ...

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Down on humanity lately? Consider the following fact, which should fill you with pride for your species. Little more than a century ago, humans believed that our universe consisted solely of the Milky ...

Midst is undoubtedly one of the most popular shows to fall under the Critical Role umbrella, and now that podcast series is getting a new comic book spinoff. Dark Horse, Critical Role, and Third ...

Astronomers have produced the largest 3D map of the universe, which can be explored in an interactive VR video. In the process, they’ve uncovered some tantalizing hints that our understanding of ...

Astronomers looking at data from the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission have concluded that the universe is only going to get "colder and deader" from here on out. The Euclid telescope ...

Sure, they're not your typical baby pictures. But a global team of researchers says new images published this week show some of the clearest visualizations yet of the universe in its infancy. If our ...