Leaving the solar system behind, this video dives into the staggering distances between stars, galaxies, clusters, and ...

As evidenced by the diagrams that make up the Tree of Knowledge System, I think it is valuable that we teach individuals broad frames to think about the Universe and our place in it. That was why I ...

Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba present computer simulations that capture the complex dynamics of elusive neutrinos left over from the Big Bang Current simulations of cosmic structure ...

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

Ian G. McCarthy receives funding from UKRI's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). He works for Liverpool John Moores University. Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is ...

Imagine having a telescope that could see almost 14 billion years back in time to when the universe was just forming. There is a project underway called CMB-S4 that plans to build two next-generation ...

Space is big. That’s why we call it space. But how big is “big”? That’s relative. When an astronomer says something is nearby, they might mean it’s a few million kilometers away (if they’re talking ...

Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That's a problem for our ideas about the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...