Black holes continue to grip our imagination. These cosmic powerhouses twist space and time so intensely that even light ...

Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that ...

Twenty years ago, the U.S. Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They've made ...

Lu Lu looks forward to the next two decades of neutrino astrophysics, exploring the remarkable detector concepts needed to ...

Astronomers have recently discovered that the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall, a massive cosmic superstructure, might be much larger and closer to Earth than previously estimated. This remarkable ...

Chakraborty's team used data from NICER and XMM-Newton to map the rapid evolution of the ejected material ... gravitational waves to better understand objects and events in the universe. One goal of ...

However, the observable universe extends farther than 13.8 billion ... show gas with temperatures of millions of degrees. In blue is a map showing the total mass concentration (mostly dark matter ...

Models of how the universe has evolved since the Big Bang allow us to predict how much normal matter (as opposed to dark matter) there should be in the observable ... the gas." A map of the ...

It's the edge of the observable universe," Ferraro said ... of millions of galaxies and quasars to construct a 3D map spanning the universe out to 11 billion light years from Earth in order ...

The European Space Agency’s Planck satellite mapped the CMB from 2009 to 2013, and cosmologists used that map to nail down ... the outer limits of the observable universe. Climbing the ladder ...

(Mark Devlin) Compiling a map of the CMB has been the work of many decades ... "We've measured more precisely that the observable Universe extends almost 50 billion light-years in all directions from ...