Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel ...

Is the universe infinite? It's one of the most profound questions we can ask, and here's the short answer: We don't know. While we have learned a great deal about the universe, a portion of the cosmos ...

You don’t have to wait for a New Year’s party invite to sparkle. As temperatures drop and shimmers sneak back into your makeup bag, ice queen beauty is back. Once defined by the frosted lips and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

It is widely thought that our universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. But could we have that wrong? That is what a group of scientists from South Korea claims, but other scientists have ...

Apple continues to refine the look and feel of the iPhone with each major iOS release, and iOS 26 places more emphasis than ever on personalization. The one big change is the introduction of Spatial ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that ...

Cuts to NPR, PBS and other public media outlets have been in the news all year long, but now the federal funds have actually run out. With Tuesday marking the end of the federal government’s fiscal ...

A team at the University of St Andrews has unlocked a major step toward true holographic displays by combining OLEDs with holographic metasurfaces. Unlike traditional laser-based holograms, this ...

"We already see indications of cracks in the standard model." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Are we living in a simulation? Well ...

Calculating the total mass of the universe is not simple, because most of the mass is invisible. In a pie chart of the contents of the universe, only 5 percent is normal matter, atoms that make up all ...