For the first time in history, we can explore the universe through a rich blend of senses—seeing, touching, and hearing astronomical data—in ways that deepen our understanding of space. While ...

From the Vatican’s stance on extraterrestrial life to the ethical and philosophical implications of expanding our cosmic ...

A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of ...

which observes the universe in infrared light that’s invisible to the human eye. The space observatory can effectively peer back in time to the beginning of a mysterious era called Cosmic Dawn ...

ACT COLLABORATION; ESA/PLANCK COLLABORATION It’s hard to picture the universe in its infancy. The middle-aged cosmos now stretches across 93 billion light-years, holding up to two trillion ...

NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...