The 2026 Breakthrough Prize honored advances in dark matter, quantum physics, gene editing and nonlinear mathematics.

The most precise measurement yet shows the Universe is expanding faster than expected, deepening the Hubble tension. The ...

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The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million ...

Since humanity's earliest days, people have looked up at the stars, using science, art, religion, philosophy, mathematics, and any other tool at their disposal to better understand the complicated and ...

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Origin of the Universe: The universe started 13.8 billion years ago from a point smaller than a single atom — and right now, it is expanding faster than the speed of light. NASA's Planck satellite ...

The team successfully built the largest, highest-resolution 3D map of the cosmos ever constructed. The completed map charts ...

Space Warps,” the new citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, aims to identify gravitational lensing in Euclid ...

The enviable creative achievements of video game designer, ace illustrator, and Hollywood concept artist Ben Mauro could fill ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...