As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

Webb discovered dozens of small, powerful galaxies from 800 million years ago that likely drove cosmic reionization by ...

The largest map of the universe ever created is now freely available for anyone to explore, so what are you waiting for?

The size of the universe is a question that has fascinated humanity for centuries. From ancient astronomers to modern scientists, the quest to understand the true scale of space has led to ...

Fresh evidence suggests that the universe is expanding faster today than it did ... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured many stunning images. Among the most memorable is this edge-on ...

By capturing detailed, long-exposure images of space features like ... and what we don’t. [ Related: The universe isn’t just expanding—it may be spinning. ] Let’s get the disappointment ...

The images released Tuesday show the oldest light in the universe, with the most precise measurements to date of the universe’s early properties, including its density, expansion and age.

The images and other information released Wednesday ... is creating a cosmic atlas to gain clues about how our ever-expanding universe works and how mysterious forces called dark energy and ...

the team described the data as “the clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy.” The radiation was emitted 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when the expanding universe ...

Additionally, these new images have helped to support the standard cosmological model, our current best theory about the universe's formation, by measuring the speed of the universe's expansion.