An engrossing look at how knowledge has grown alongside our technologies, and how we might unlock the puzzles of the Universe ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

New measurements of the universe’s expansion using James Webb Space Telescope appear to resolve the Hubble constant conflict ...

By comparing this brightness to their observed brightness, astronomers can chain Cepheids into a "cosmic distance ladder" to ...

The Cosmic Distance Ladder. Source: ESA/Hubble Astronomers rely on parallax measurements of Cepheid variable stars for local distances of about 10,000 to 100,000 light-years.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in late October, scooting between the orbits of Mars and ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13. ...