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 ...

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

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.

Cosmic Encounter is a veteran of the space board gaming genre. The first version came out in 1977, the same year that the original Star Wars released, which is fitting because this game is all ...

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. ...