Galanti and his colleagues had previously found evidence of axion-like particles in light from distant blazars – extremely ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...

According to astrophysicists, the Universe will evolve over time into a homogeneous soup where nothing ever happens.

A decade ago, astronomers observed gravitational waves for the first time. What has emerged since is a picture of the universe as a vast ocean – dark and powerful.

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

This Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR ... This radiation is now used to 'map' the early Universe. The diagram below is a heat map showing that temperature was not evenly distributed.

In 1927 Georges Lemaître proposed that the Universe began with an explosion called the Big Bang. Hubble’s research into the red shift of galaxy light showed that the Universe was expanding ...

Scientists have confirmed earlier reports that the fabric of the universe is constantly vibrating. The background rumble is ...

The universe is a turbulent place ... We can, however, gather indirect evidence of the cosmic background of gravitational waves. Last year, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for ...

Studies using fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of ... If so, it will be one more fundamental aspect of the Universe that Freedman has helped to illuminate.

In 2020 Nobel Laureate Sir Roger Penrose claimed that an earlier universe existed before the Big Bang and can still be observed today as a scar on the cosmic microwave background (CMB).