A space professor who helped design a groundbreaking satellite has said it will "profoundly change our understanding of the ...

If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

The article chronicles the evolution of astronomy from astrology and alchemy to modern astrophysics, highlighting significant advancements like the development of spectroscopy and Einstein's theory of ...

The universe may not expand forever as scientists once believed. According to new calculations by Cornell physicist Henry Tye, the cosmos is approaching the midpoint of its 33-billion-year life and ...

The bottom line is that the fact that fire is so tightly bound to Earth is a reminder of how special our planet is. Every ...

For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...

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