Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

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 ...

As the James Webb Space Telescope reveals supermassive black holes are on the move – at two million miles per hour no less – ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about.

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Our existence rests on a razor‑thin imbalance in the early cosmos. When the universe was young, matter and antimatter should ...

SAINT-MICHEL OBSERVATORY, FRANCE–(Marketwire -07/25/12)- Cosmos Story, the first audio and visual guided journey through the universe, is now available for iPad and iPhone. Co-created by an ...

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