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 ...

The Universe has long been cast as effectively immortal, coasting into a cold, dark eternity so distant that it might as well ...

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

However, findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in March 2025 challenged this view. DESI was designed to track the acceleration of millions of galaxies and unravel the secrets ...

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

The idea that the cosmos might be alive is moving from late-night speculation into serious, if controversial, scientific ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

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 ...

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