Measuring 93 billion light-years in diameter, the universe is so big that it can be overwhelming to envisage. Despite its ...

The human species is ever-changing and so is our view of the universe ... after the first historic drawing of the Whirlpool Galaxy was made, NASA released a composite picture of the same great ...

Immeasurably hot and dense, that which would become our Universe was crammed into a volume just a tiny fraction the size of a proton. During the first picosecond of time (10⁻¹² seconds ...

SMACS 0723: Red arcs in the image trace light from galaxies in the very early Universe The first full-colour picture from the new James Webb Space Telescope has been released - and it doesn't ...

"They are fantastic," said Prof Isobel Hook, who worked on one the teams in the 1990s that first discovered the Universe was expanding at a faster and faster pace. "I finally saw the images at ...

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.—Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Humans have many ...

Looking out to a radius of 13.8 billion light-years in all directions, we see the cosmic microwave background (CMB, for short)—light that was emitted soon after the Big Bang beginning of the universe ...

In this video, Neil explains how new telescopes will help us see the origins of the universe. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is ...