Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting off on a ...

In a preprint submitted to The Astrophysical Journal and uploaded to arXiv, a large international team of astronomers led by Seiji Fujimoto of the University of Texas at Austin has described what they ...

Scientists today are quite sure about how long our universe has existed ... and his co-authors asked in the study they submitted to Science. A second set of simulations tested whether the water ...

The first generation of stars in the universe could have produced significant amounts of water upon their deaths, just 100 million to 200 million years after the Big Bang. Signatures of water have ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Physicists have a lot of questions about our universe. Here’s one more to add to the list: Why is it so asymmetrical? New research has confirmed an anomaly named the ...

Waking up yesterday to the news that Andrew Tate and his younger brother, Tristan, were on a private jet heading for the US, I was not remotely surprised. I spent 2023 immersed in the warped ...

Credit: Stamm, J., Priyadarsini, S.S., Sandhu, S. et al. Finally, this study highlights the importance of H₃⁺ in the Universe. Although this molecule is less well-known than water or proteins, its ...

“It’s about opening up a new window on the universe.” Although the data that the spacecraft gathers will be of broad relevance across all of astronomy, the SPHEREx team has three key science ...

Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays are the highest-energy particles in the universe, whose energies are ... by grants from the National Science Foundation (PHY-2013199, PHY-2413153).