A major international effort has produced an ultra-precise measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate, confirming it’s ...

Join the Department of Astronomy as renowned astronomers from across the country give five free lectures throughout the year. The first speaker in the 2017-2018 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series ...

Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they’re far from nothing. Even in these vast empty regions, the fundamental ...

A never-before-seen image of the cosmic microwave background, combining data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Planck satellite, offers a high-definition view of the early Universe.

For years, we’ve believed that the universe is a vast, uniform expanse, with the same properties stretching across the cosmos. But what if that’s not the case? A surprising new discovery suggests that ...

Astronomers have unveiled new details about a previously hidden star-forming region of the cosmos, thanks to the powerful eye ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big Bang—a cosmic Jekyll and Hyde that looks like any other galaxy when viewed in ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to be missing. Scientists knew this matter had to exist based on predictions ...

An image that could solve a long lasting cosmic mystery Unprecedented chance to measure the growth of the universe Collaboration between TUM, LMU and Max Planck Institutes That the universe is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forget one Big Bang — try many. A bold new theory pokes holes in the popular origin story, suggesting the universe evolves through ...

Covering a tiny patch of sky spanning less than a tenth of the full moon, the famous "Hubble eXtreme Deep Field" image revealed thousands of galaxies, including objects from the universe infancy. The ...