We can recoil in fear and disregard our humanity in the face of sheer cosmic dread. Or we can transform the shadows of the cosmos into a light that illuminates the uniqueness of everything we know ...

Euclid this week delivered the first piece of a cosmic map — containing about 100 million stars and galaxies — that will take six years to create. These stunning 3D observations may help ...

Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first place.

REBELS-25 seems to have other surprises that it is yet to fully divulge. For example, the early galaxy appears to have characteristics similar to those of the roughly 13.6-billion-year-old Milky ...

"This is just 1% of the map, and yet it is full of a variety of sources that will help scientists discover new ways to describe the universe." The Euclid Space Telescope has revealed the "first ...

An international team led by three researchers from the CNRS, the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Europe), and Charles University (Czech Republic) has successfully demonstrated that 70% of all ...

These objects are thought to be a source of galactic cosmic rays, the origins of which are currently a mystery. Understanding how this microquasar works could also help researchers learn more ...

Come to a seated position with your legs out in front of you. Bring the soles of your feet together, with your knees ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest strongly rotating galaxy ever seen that's well-organized rather than chaotic, challenging theories of cosmic evolution. When you purchase through links on ...

A mosaic of the cosmos made with Euclid Space Telescope data. Image: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CEA Paris-Saclay, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi (CC BY-SA 3.0 ...