“It’s really mapping the sky in a novel way,” says Olivier Doré, a cosmologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a project scientist for SPHEREx. “It’s about opening up a new ...

“It’s really mapping the sky in a novel way,” says Olivier Doré, a cosmologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a project scientist for SPHEREx. “It’s about opening up a new window on the ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented look at the earliest days of the universe and much more ...

More radically, cosmologist Roger Penrose has proposed that new universes can emerge from ones that don’t contract, through a dramatic “rescaling” of all space-time. In both these scenarios ...

The last time the moon blocked out the sun, in 2017, the skies above Las Vegas were covered in clouds and rain poured down across the Valley. It was a rare celestial event obscured by rare weather for ...

Renowned for investigating the stars, Stephen Hawking’s public persona was rarely anything but down to earth. The world-famous cosmologist’s popular science book, A Brief History of Time, electrified ...