Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can't see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the universe—primarily how it is causing ...

NASA's new SPHEREx observatory has released its first all-sky cosmic map. This map uses 102 infrared wavelengths to reveal the universe in unprecedented detail. Scientists can now study cosmic ...

Our planet is like a cosmic vehicle with no brakes, carrying all of us on several overlapping trips through the universe.

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields from the Big Bang may offer a solution.

For decades, astronomers have treated dark matter as the invisible scaffolding of the cosmos, a mysterious substance that ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

Cosmic web Created using data from the JWST, this map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible galaxies are built. The overlaid contours mark regions of equal dark-matter ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be one of the earliest known examples of large-scale sacred urban planning in the Americas. At Aguada Fénix, an ancient site in southeastern Mexico, a massive ...

A Canadian who has worked in the gaming industry for over two decades, Beck grew up on games such as Final Fantasy and Super Mario Bros. He specalizes in roleplaying games, but covers titles in almost ...

A team of Indian astrophysicists has successfully redrawn the map of one of the largest structures in our night sky, the Gum Nebula, by using the signals from distant dead stars as cosmic measuring ...

A team of researchers studying the uncertainties associated with a phenomenon known as cosmic birefringence has developed a method to reduce uncertainties in its observational measurements, according ...