Astronomers hunting for evidence of the light from the first stars and galaxies have found that the universe was warm, rather than cold, before it "lit up." ...

Scientists at UT Austin claim the first provable quantum supremacy, showing a 12-qubit system beat classical computers—paving the way for real quantum power. Harvard researcher Avi Loeb says comet ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

The team behind Europe's Euclid space telescope just published the world's most extensive simulation of the universe, which ...

NASA has been studying little red dots that were spotted in the universe's infancy stage. They grew too fast, and too early.

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe.

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

The Flagship 2 simulation, developed using an algorithm by University of Zurich astrophysicist Joachim Stadel, is the largest ...

Our understanding of cosmology hinges on how well we know our own local universe, which remains poorly mapped and poorly ...

Astronomers use many methods to determine this number, including gravitational lensing, the universe’s expansion rate, and more.

This article, originally titled "The Man Who Discovered the Universe," is from the Summer 2025 issue of Air & Space Quarterly ...

A team of astronomers looking at galaxies in the universe’s distant past have discovered nine young, compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. Imagine receiving an ...