A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous ...

From a single point 14 billion years ago to our ever-expanding current Universe, the Big Bang theory is one of the most ...

Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter weren't able to crack the dark matter problem, but a team of experts might have figured ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been ...

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...

Paul Sutter explores how ancient creation myths and modern cosmology answer the same questions, framing the Big Bang as a scientific creation story rooted in observation and theory ...

Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy from cosmic dawn is rewriting ideas about how fast the Universe built its first galaxies.

You can now stream an episode of National Geographic's highly regarded documentary series about planet Earth, hosted by Will ...

NASA’s SPHEREx has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, which are invisible to the human eye but can be used to ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope may have detected the universe’s first stars, Pop III stars, in galaxy LAP1-B, offering a glimpse into cosmic history.

The three-dimensional view will help scientists learn more about the origins of life in the Milky Way galaxy and how the ...