The universe's expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. "Remarkab...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers might have spotted some of the first stars to form after the Big Bang. Just like humans, stars exist in multiple generations. This […]

Astronomers cast doubt on Nobel prize-winning theory and suggest universe could end in ‘big crunch’

Is the Hubble constant—a key part of how we measure the expansion of our universe—in a crisis? Some cosmologists say yes.

The first week of the on-sky engineering campaign with LSSTCam followed a full schedule of daytime, evening, and nighttime activities, and saw rapid progress on many aspects of system commissioning. …

Our First Look at imagery from Rubin Observatory is nearly here — learn about how to host or attend a Rubin First Look Watch Party and join in the global celebration

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these ‘polar planets’ orbiting a s...

The space science community is deeply concerned after recent reports that NASA's budget would be halved.

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CEOs who thought that President Donald Trump would be good for business say they got a massive shock earlier this month when he unveiled his "Liberation Day" tariffs that sent the stock market nose di...

Christopher Newfield writes that higher ed has a better counternarrative to share.

Sudden move mirrors NIH cap on “indirect” costs that was ruled illegal

New observations show that the universe's first light penetrated the fog of the cosmic dark ages just 330 million years after the Big Bang.

A recent study, using data from JWST, analyzed the rotation of 263 distant galaxies, surprisingly finding that about 2/3 of them rotate cl...

This figure shows a slice of the universe mapped by the DR1 data, showing the four major galaxy samples. See the figure in the paper for mo...

New data hint that dark energy is weakening over time. If true, it means that our most trusted cosmological models may be wrong.

Two Cosmological Surveys Strengthen Hints That Standard Model of Cosmology Is Wrong

The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.

What statistical forgery in other regimes can tell us about what to expect.

The rulings are a major setback to Musk’s agenda for DOGE.

Popular podcaster has history of condemning FBI—and praising President Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that Ukraine's president is an illegitimate "dictator" aligns with Kremlin war objectives and puts Volodymyr Zelensky in an almost impossible situation, experts and...