Scientists have detected ancient microwave signals from the universe's early days. These signals, over 13 billion years old, ...

How could the Universe form such dense and extremely hot structures only 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang? This question ...

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Dark energy may be the most mysterious substance ever proposed, but many scientists are certain it exists. Why?

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope combined over 100 different wavelength maps. (Image: NASA/JPL) NASA's SPHEREx created a full-sky infrared map from over 100 individual surveys. 3D map of galaxies aids cosmic ...

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there was nobody around to hear them anyway. But Jim Baggott says from the first ...

But there are several important anomalies, including a widely debated one called the Hubble tension. It is named after Edwin Hubble, who is credited with having discovered in 1929 that the universe is ...

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Subir Sarkar receives funding from the UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) councils. The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study ...

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