When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NGC 3972, a galaxy 66 million light-years away in the Big Dipper, was one of 10 galaxies used to measure the expansion of the universe in a new study. | Credit: Yuval Harpaz, data via JWST Observations of … Read more
Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began beaming data back to Earth in 2022, it has had a profound impact on astronomy. Among its most revolutionary achievements has been the observation of some of the most distant galaxies ever seen. However, because light does not travel instantaneously, but instead travels at about 300 million … Read more
The rate at which the universe is expanding is accelerating across the cosmos, driven by a mysterious force known as dark energy. However, new research suggests that this may not be the case at the edges of black holes. Rather than suggesting that dark energy does not act at the boundaries of black holes, this … Read more
Editor’s note: The new Euclid Telescope images were released at 5 a.m. EDT (12 p.m. CEST). You can view the five new views of the cosmos here in our image release story. The European Space Agency (ESA) will release five new images from the Euclid Space Telescope today (May 23). And if the previous set … Read more
A survey of more than 1,500 supernovae conducted by the Dark Energy Camera has placed strong constraints on the accelerating expansion of the universe. The results suggest that the mysterious force driving this cosmic acceleration, dark energy, can change over time and vary in density, challenging the standard model of cosmology. Related: Dark energy remains … Read more