The universe is massive, and Earth is located a long way away from the edge of our known universe. Putting that into a scale is difficult and doesn't properly showcase just how big the universe is.

The 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate raised new and profound questions about the nature and fate of the universe. Based on measurements of the speed of distant ...

Once it’s launched into outer space in 2027, NASA’s next telescope will provide the “big picture” of the universe. But for two Duke scientists, preparations are already underway. Once it’s launched ...

Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind’s deepest-ever view of the universe. (Credit: NASA; ESA; G. Illingworth, D.

This logarithmic view of the Universe shows our solar system, the galaxy, the cosmic web, and the limits of what's observable out to a distance of 46.1 billion light-years away. This view is only ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made the deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years ...

HOUSTON—President Biden unveiled the first image marking the start of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) long-anticipated initial science campaign on July 11 that featured a stirring, full-color ...

instrument on the 8.2-m VLT ANTU telescope. For this, the VLT was pointed for more than 100 hours under optimal observing conditions at the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S) and obtained similar to ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid satellite completed the first part of its long journey into space on May 1, 2023, when it arrived in Florida on a boat from Italy. When you purchase through ...

The universe is literally everything, the sum of all existence. It includes all matter, like stars and galaxies. The universe also includes all radiation and all other forms of energy. No matter where ...

Bob Nichol previously received funding from UKSA as part of his leadership roles in the Euclid Consortium. He has not received any funding from UKSA since 2020. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ...