A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...

I n 1964, physicist Arno Allan Penzias and radio astronomer Robert Woodrow Wilson picked up a persistent hum in their radio telescope readings.

Deep in the first moments of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos shook and rumbled. Those quakes still reverberate to the present day. It will take the most sensitive instruments ever imagined to reveal ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found ...

Watch Pop Mech ’s Jackie Appel reveal the story of how two men from New Jersey named Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson made one of the most important discoveries in the history of astronomy—by accident.

The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

Many textbooks and science educators have attempted to describe the Big Bang as the birth of the universe — an explosive ...

Lead Astronomer at the James Webb Australian Data Centre, Swinburne University of Technology Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in ...

Released by the European Space Agency, a new map detailing the oldest light in the Universe focuses on the cosmic microwave background -- what is essentially the dim glow of radiation that is found ...

Enrique Gaztanaga receives funding from the Spanish Plan Nacional (PGC2018-102021-B-100) and Maria de Maeztu (CEX2020-001058-M) grants. Enrique Gaztanaga is also a Professor at the Institute of Space ...

Given the serious security threat to the European continent posed by Russia, the standard step-by-step approach to increasing ...